"mentrix" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Latin mentrix",
      "name": "bor"
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        "2": "mentor",
        "3": "trix"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin mentrix or mentor + -trix.",
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      "form": "mentrices",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "mentrix (plural mentrices)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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          "ref": "1897, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, A Russian Wild Flower: Or, The Story of a Woman in Search of a Life, City of Westminster, London: John Macqueen, page 193:",
          "text": "Olga had indeed learned that the church had appointed certain days and seasons for fasting, but thought she had herself fasted in a fashion, she had never suspected that she was imitating Christ, and she had never been told that the oil was a necessary part of the observance. Anxious to please her new mentrix she tried to swallow the nasty stuff, but the flesh was weak and, moreover, rebellious; and thus the first experiment in religious discipline proved a failure.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Medieval Feminist Newsletter:",
          "text": "Finally, as women scholars — at every career level — we must never underestimate our value as mentors — or mentrices.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 11, Socrates, “Re: Mentor/Mentee ?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <339F1D8E.4DF2@forum.edu>:",
          "text": "But shouldn't the verb form be \"ment\"? The mentor mented his mentees. / His wife, also a mentrix, or one of his daughters, both mentrices, took over menting when he was away.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Richard Fardon, Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk, editors, Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond: Based on an EIDOS Conference Held at The Hague, 13–16 March 1997, page 231:",
          "text": "Each girl is instructed by a mentrix (nacimbusa, plural banacimbusa), who is helped by other women. Apart from being themselves initiated and authorized to perform these rites, the mentrices must be women who are well-respected in society, who maintain a good standard of family life, and whose conduct is above reproach.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 December 3, Matthew B. Tepper, “Re: Scandinavia/Finland was Crusell: LITTLE SLAVE GIRL”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet), message-ID <smAW5.42901$nh5.3035519@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>:",
          "text": "One of my mentors (mentrixes? mentrices?), fantasy-horror novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, who proudly claims Finnish heritage*, asserts quite strongly that the Finns are not Scandinavians. They certainly aren't Slavs either.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A female mentor."
      ],
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          "female",
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          "mentor",
          "mentor"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mentoress"
        },
        {
          "word": "mentress"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "mentrix"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "mentrix"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mentrix",
      "name": "bor"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mentor",
        "3": "trix"
      },
      "expansion": "mentor + -trix",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin mentrix or mentor + -trix.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mentrices",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1897, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, A Russian Wild Flower: Or, The Story of a Woman in Search of a Life, City of Westminster, London: John Macqueen, page 193:",
          "text": "Olga had indeed learned that the church had appointed certain days and seasons for fasting, but thought she had herself fasted in a fashion, she had never suspected that she was imitating Christ, and she had never been told that the oil was a necessary part of the observance. Anxious to please her new mentrix she tried to swallow the nasty stuff, but the flesh was weak and, moreover, rebellious; and thus the first experiment in religious discipline proved a failure.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1994, Medieval Feminist Newsletter:",
          "text": "Finally, as women scholars — at every career level — we must never underestimate our value as mentors — or mentrices.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 11, Socrates, “Re: Mentor/Mentee ?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <339F1D8E.4DF2@forum.edu>:",
          "text": "But shouldn't the verb form be \"ment\"? The mentor mented his mentees. / His wife, also a mentrix, or one of his daughters, both mentrices, took over menting when he was away.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Richard Fardon, Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk, editors, Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond: Based on an EIDOS Conference Held at The Hague, 13–16 March 1997, page 231:",
          "text": "Each girl is instructed by a mentrix (nacimbusa, plural banacimbusa), who is helped by other women. Apart from being themselves initiated and authorized to perform these rites, the mentrices must be women who are well-respected in society, who maintain a good standard of family life, and whose conduct is above reproach.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 December 3, Matthew B. Tepper, “Re: Scandinavia/Finland was Crusell: LITTLE SLAVE GIRL”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet), message-ID <smAW5.42901$nh5.3035519@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>:",
          "text": "One of my mentors (mentrixes? mentrices?), fantasy-horror novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, who proudly claims Finnish heritage*, asserts quite strongly that the Finns are not Scandinavians. They certainly aren't Slavs either.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      ],
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          "mentor",
          "mentor"
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    {
      "word": "mentoress"
    },
    {
      "word": "mentress"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mentrix"
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