profestrixEtymologyLearned borrowing from Contemporary Latin profestrīx. By surface analysis, profess + -trix.profestrix means A female professor. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.nounA female professor.“Moreover, I introduced into the problem an additional element by requesting their reaction to the word profestrix, […] Mr. John Sparrow, formerly Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, was very definite: “As for the retired female professor, I am sure she can’t be called profestrix emerita: profestrix simply won’t do! (Indeed I know it wasn’t meant seriously). ” “I don’t trust profestrix for a mome”