Noun: aviatrix
| Singular | aviatrix |
| Plural | aviatrices; aviatrixes |
Sample Sentences
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“... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected. [1969, William Dana Orcutt, Celebrities Off Parade: Pen-and-ink Portrait Sketches, →ISBN, page 111:]
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The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut [1987, Pat Browne, Heroines of Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 54:]
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Hariet Quimby, a writer for Leslie's Weekly, in 1911 became the first American aviatrix and won international accalim in 1912 as the first woman to pilot a plan across the English Channel. [2001, Roger E. Bilstein, Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, →ISBN, page 22:]
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In 1929 she turned an ide that she ‘stole’ from her son into a screenplay, Wings in the Dark, featuring a protagonist based on Ameria Earhart, the famous aviatrix with whom Shipman was acquainted... [2002, Deena Mandrell, Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction, →ISBN, page 307:]
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2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia
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From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.
Nouns inflected like aviatrix
transition matrix,
territorial matrix,
enterothorax,
anthelix,
Hankel matrix,
Doctrix,
transformation matrix,
dot matrix,
skew-symmetric matrix,
doctrix,
subjugatrix,
degenerate matrix,
generatrix,
administratrix,
mediatrix,
aviatrix,
antihelix,
adjacency matrix,
incidence matrix,
editrix, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From aviator + -trix.