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.

• “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.