prosecutrixEtymologyLearned borrowing from Latin prōsecūtrīx. By surface analysis, prosecutor + -trix.nounA female prosecutor“A man, in the desperation of a refusal (common people take those things strangely to heart), had stabbed the obdurate fair one with his knife. She was herself the prosecutrix.”A female victim of a crime on whose behalf the state is prosecuting a suspect“1893 R v Smith. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213824/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1838-39/html/r_v_smith__no_2___1839.htm The prosecutrix was the wife of a ticket-of-leave man, named Daniel Jackson, and she was also separated from her husband, and lived for some time with a man named Clarke, who died on the day before the alleged robbery was committed. Clarke left a will bequeathing a”