conservatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnservātrīx. By surface analysis, conservator +‎ -trix.

conservatrix (plural conservatrices)

1. A female conservator.

• “conservatrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From cōnservō, cōnservātum (“to preserve”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.sɛrˈwaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.serˈvaː.t̪riks]

cōnservātrīx f (genitive cōnservātrīcis, masculine cōnservātor); third declension

1. she who preserves or defends, protectress

Third-declension noun.

cōnservātrīx (feminine cōnservātrīx); third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural)

1. preserving
   • 1775, Arnoldus Anthonius Stook, Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fabricâ et motu causisque motricibus cordis, page 31:

     Attamen credibile est omnesque medici recentiores in eo consentiunt, hanc vim vitalem constituere fundamentum, cui naturae humanae molimina conservatricia, destructricia, medicatricia superstructa sunt.

     Nevertheless, it is credible, and all recent doctors agree, that this vital power constitutes the foundation upon which the preserving, destroying, and healing undertakings of human nature are built.

Third-declension defective adjective (feminine-only when singular, feminine or neuter when plural).

• “conservatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conservatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.