aviatrix
/ˈeɪ.vi.eɪ.tɹɪks/
aviatrix means A female aviator.
aviatrix is pronounced /ˈeɪ.vi.eɪ.tɹɪks/.
Why “aviatrix” is a great word
A female pilot, formed from aviator (from Latin avis, "bird") and the feminine Latin-derived suffix -trix ("female agent"), first recorded in English 1925–30. Unlike aviator, which became the functional, gender-neutral term, or pilot, the standard, unmarked designation, aviatrix is a deliberate archaism that insists on its own specificity. She is the leather-helmeted figure in Amelia Earhart's publicity stills, the silk-scarfed defiance of a newsreel spectacle, the wind-chapped portrait gazing into a prop wash; a word, like polished flight goggles in a museum case, that carried the profound weight of an era when to be a woman at the controls was itself a radical grammar of the sky.
Etymology
From aviator + -trix.
noun
- A female aviator.e.g.““... — 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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