editrix

A female editor.

Noun

  1. A female editor.
    • Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name. - 2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in...
    • There is a mythos surrounding the 73-year-old editrix [Anna Wintour] that inspires deference akin to that given to royalty. - 2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts...

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin ēditrīx. By surface analysis, edit + -trix.

Forms

editrices editrixes

Synonyms

editress