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Added 10 October 2026

rectrix

noun

Latin root: rēctrīx Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about rectrix at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A governess; a rectoress.
A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin rēctrīx (“one who directs”). By surface analysis, rector + -trix.

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