FromFrenchactrice, fromLatinactrīx.Doublet ofactrix.
actrice (pluralactrices)
- (archaic)female equivalent ofactor
[1667],[Dudley Loftus],The Vindication of an Injured Lady: Written by the Lady Francesca Maria Lucretia Plunkett, One of the Ladies of the Privy Chamber of the Queen-Mother of England, London, pages22–23:TheseActrices, perhaps in their first Scenes, found some applause amongst themselves, but the World knows they have not mended their own reputations, by endeavouring to destroy mine;
1678, J[ean] Gailhard,The Compleat Gentleman: or Directions for the Education of Youth as to Their Breeding at Home and Travelling Abroad, London: […] Tho. Newcomb, for John Starkey, page94:This, if any, is the good which can be learned from Plays; but on the other ſide, the life of Actors andActrices, their geſtures, actions, carriage, and whatſoever elſe is in them joyned to the bad inclinations of the generality of ſpectators, will quite hinder any good effect, and deſtroy what good diſpoſitions might happen to be in them:[…]
1711, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury],Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume I,page314:By the help of this tragickActrice, they gain a fairer Audience for the luxurious Fancys, and give theirEratos and other playſomeMuſes a fuller Scope in the ſupport of Riot and Debauch.
1714, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury],Characteristicks, volume III (Miscellaneous Reflections on the Preceding Treatises, and Other Critical Subjects. A Notion of the Tablature, or Judgment of Hercules.), [the second edition corrected],page368:Such ſtudy’d Action and artificial Geſture may be allow’d to the Actors andActrices of the Stage.- The 1711 edition hasActreſſes.
1715, Tamworth Reresby, transl.,A Collection of Letters, Extracted from the Most Celebrated French Authors. […], London: […] T. Howlatt, for J. Graves, page55:It’s difficult to affect the Audience with a Senſe of what we do not feel our ſelves; and all thoſeActrices who are famous for repreſenting the Paſſions in ſo lively a manner, would not be able to acquit themſelves with ſo great Applauſe, did they not in their own Hearts experience the moſt Tender Sentiments.
Chiefly attested in the pluralactrices, which could instead be the plural ofactrix; however, dictionaries mention thatactrice was used.[1][2]
Borrowed fromFrenchactrice.
- IPA(key): /ˌɑkˈtri.sə/
- Hyphenation:ac‧tri‧ce
- Rhymes:-isə
actrice f (pluralactrices,diminutiveactricetje n,masculineacteur)
- actress
- Synonym:toneelspeelster
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchactrice, borrowed fromLatināctrīcem.
actrice f (pluralactrices,masculineacteur)
- actress
- Synonym:comédienne
āctrīce
- ablativesingular ofāctrīx
Borrowed fromFrenchactrice.
actrice f (pluralactrices)
- (Jersey)actress
