different between investigator vs indagatrix

English

Etymology

Attested in the mid?16th century; from Latin investigator, from investigare.

Noun

investigator (plural investigators)

1. One who investigates.

Hyponyms

• principal investigator

Derived terms

• co-investigator

Related terms

• investigatrix (feminine)

Translations

References

• investigator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “investigator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• investigator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology 1

From invest?g? +? -tor

Noun

invest?g?tor m (genitive invest?g?t?ris); third declension

1. investigator, researcher
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Nova formicae species [1], Nuntii Latini 27.4.2018:

     Grex investigatorum in Borneo novam formicae speciem invenit, quae se explodendo communitatem suam defendit.

     A group of researchers in Borneo has found a new species of ant which defends its nest by exploding.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

invest?g?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of invest?g?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of invest?g?

References

• investigator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• investigator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From French investigateur, from Latin investigator.

Adjective

investigator m or n (feminine singular investigatoare, masculine plural investigatori, feminine and neuter plural investigatoare)

1. investigating

Declension

Noun

investigator m (plural investigatori, feminine equivalent investigatoare)

1. investigator

Derived terms

• investiga
• investigare
• investiga?ie

English

Etymology

From Latin ind?g?trix, feminine form of ind?g?tor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nd???e?t??ks/

Noun

indagatrix (plural indagatrices)

1. (rare) A female investigator; a searcheress.
   • 1653: Richard Sanders, Physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled, p269

     The soul, the indigatrix of all things.

   • 2003: Jerome B. Schneewind, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, p487

     And thus Philosophy, which judges both of herself and of everything besides, discovers her own province and chief command, teaches me to distinguish between her person and her likeness, and shows me her immediate and real self, by that sole privilege of teaching me to know myself and what belongs to me. She gives to every inferior science its just rank; leaves some to measure sounds, others to scan syllables, others to weigh vacua, and define spaces and extensions; but reserves to herself her due authority and majesty, keeps her state and ancient title of vitae dux, virtutis indagatrix.⁵…

Related terms

• -rix
• indagate
• indagation
• indagative
• indagator
• indagatory

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).

Anagrams

• x-radiating