patrix

[ pey-triks, pa- ]

noun

, Printing.

, plural pa·tri·ces [pey, -tr, uh, -seez, pa, -], pa·trix·es.

1. a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.

Word History and Origins

Origin of patrix¹

1880–85; blend of patri- and matrix

Example Sentences

I like to say about the matrix of destruction that it’s not matrix, it’s the patrix because it’s based on patriarchy, not matriarchy.

From The Guardian

Patrix, the edifice's architect, said it took him just a couple of nights to build.

From BBC

Having succeeded in reaching a more limpid part of the liquor, its form was so distinct that Mr. Patrix, who was with me, was enabled to take an exact drawing of its configuration.”

From Project Gutenberg

This is found in the Histoire du Chevalier Oben qui vouloist acuplir le voiage de S. Patrix, printed by Leroy about 1480, of which the only known copy is at the British Museum.

From Project Gutenberg

The second drawing by Pierre Ozanne inscribed in French “Icelandic Woman/ sketched at Patrix Fjord” portrays the woman wearing a tall tapering bonnet.

From New York Times