fornicatrix

[ fawr-ni-key-triks ]

noun

, plural for·ni·ca·tri·ces [fawr-ni-k, uh, -, trahy, -seez].

1. a woman who commits fornication.

Gender Note

See -trix.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fornicatrix¹

1580–90; < Late Latin: prostitute; fornicate ¹, -trix

Example Sentences

The profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Zhdanov attacks the lyric poetess Anna Akhmatova as "a fornicatrix and nun, who mixes fornication with prayer," the whole Soviet press gets the fairly obvious idea: Zhdanov doesn't like the way she writes.

From Time Magazine Archive