aviatrix
The young aviatrix, Amelia Earhart broke the women's altitude record by flying to 14,000 feet.
The female name is normally spelled "Amelia", as in 20th Century aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
aviatrixIf one is referring to Pilot in the aircraft sense of the term ( of course there were and are Harbor Pilots- long before that- the German derived term Steerman is apt. 0-but fo the aircraft pilots- Aviatrix is the standard term, the female of Aviator. it literally means Birdwoman- Avis- Birds ( not the auto rental agency!) plus the female suffix Trix. Amelia Earhart was the premiere Aviatrix, so to speak. New film coming out about her October 23, it caught on in a flash- pun intended, the mysterious Electra Project. By the way ( Trix) is sometimes used to mean a fast or loose woman- a take-off ( pun intended) on Aviatrix. the rarely used term Viatrix- implies something like a ( woman who gets around) or a Runaround Sue type- again a tie in.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.The noun 'pilot' is a common gender noun as a word for a male or a female who flies an airplane.The noun 'pilot' is a neuter noun as a word for a television program made to test audience reaction.In the early days of aviation, a male pilot was called an aviator, a female pilot was called an aviatrix. Use of these nouns has become obsolete.
An aviator is a noun for a male; an aviatrix is a noun for a female.
aviatrix
feminine is aviatrix
male: aviator (not avaitor)female: aviatrix
"Aviatrix" is the noun for a female pilot. The nouns aviatrix and aviator have become obsolete in favor of the common gender noun "pilot".
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aviatrix
Aviatrix. it comes from the Latin and is approximately- Birdwoman. pronounced correctly to rhyme with Have- I- a- Trix, not Ave a Trix!
An aviatrix is a female aircraft pilot or aviator, often seen as a dated term.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.The gender specific noun for a female who files a plane is aviatrix.The gender specific noun for a male who flies a plane is aviator.These words have become obsolete in favor of the common gender noun, pilot (a word for a male or a female who flies a plane).
Back in the olden days when women were assigned a different noun for the same occupation, and a male pilot was called an aviator, a female pilot was called an aviatrix.
That is 'aviatrix' .