correctrix

A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector.

Noun

  1. A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector.
    • Inside the castle is a rankery, a real one. And rankery is the right word, don’t go thinking the correctrix got it wrong. You know full well that no correctrix has proofed my dad’s book. - 2000, The Fat Princess: A...

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin corrēctrīx. By surface analysis, correct + -trix.

Forms

correctrices

Synonyms

correctress