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語源

From Latin assassinatrix. By surface analysis, assassinate +‎ -trix.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əsăʹsĭnā'trĭks, IPA: /əsæsɪˈneɪtɹɪks/
• ハイフネーション: as‧sas‧sin‧a‧trix

名詞

assassinatrix (plural assassinatrices)

1. (rare) A female assassin.
   • 1881, Leonard A. Montefiore, Essays and Letters Contributed to Various Periodicals between September 1877 and August 1879, together with Some Unpublished Fragments, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page xlvi:

     The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix.

   • 2004 April 14, Richard von Busack, “‘Bill’ Paying: When Everything is Cool, Nothing is Hip—Quentin Tarantino Kills Again [review of Kill Bill: Volume 2]”, in Metroactive, Metro Silicon Valley‎, archived from the original on 21 September 2015:

     [T]he Bride tracks down [David] Carradine's Bill—leader, mentor and more to this unstoppable assassinatrix.

   • 2011, Len Brown, Jason Statham: Taking Stock, London: Orion Publishing, →OCLC:

     Having appeared with Jason [Statham] in Lock, Stock [and Two Smoking Barrels], Snatch and Mean Machine didn't necessarily qualify Jason Flemyng to play the hapless Russian villain Dimitri, while Kate Nauta's role as an evil assassinatrix dressed only in bra, pants, suspenders and high heels teetered from the initially sexy to the rudely ridiculous.

同意語

• assassinatress

関連する語

• assassin
• assassinate
• assassination
• assassinator