oratrix

Borrowed from Latin ōrātrīx. By surface analysis, orator +‎ -trix.

oratrix (plural oratrixes or oratrices)

1. (obsolete) A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading^[1]

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

From ōrō, ōrātum (“to orate”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈraː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈraː.t̪riks]

ōrātrīx f (genitive ōrātrīcis, masculine ōrātor); third declension

1. A female orator, a female speaker.

Third-declension noun.

• “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oratrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "oratrix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• oratrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.