mediatrix

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mediātrīx. By surface analysis, mediator + -trix.

She obligingly consented to act as mediatrix in the matter. — Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Charlotte Brontë
It was therefore agreed that the young people of both families should visit each other frequently for the future, and the friendship of course lasted as long as the jovial old mediatrix was there to keep the peace. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
He now thought it high time to bring over Madam la Mer to his interest; and, to facilitate her conversion, took an opportunity of bribing her with some inconsiderable presents, after having amused her with a plausible tale of his passion for Monimia, with whom she undertook the office of his mediatrix, on the supposition that his intentions were honourable, and highly advantageous to her lodger. — The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete, T. (Tobias) Smollett

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