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autrice

French, noun/o.tʁis/

autrice is a French feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of auteur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celle qui est à l’origine de quelque chose”.

What does autrice mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of auteur

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Celle qui est à l’origine de quelque chose. 2. Femme qui a rédigé un ouvrage de littérature, de science ou d’art. Écrivaine. 3. Génitrice ; ascendante

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of autrice

  • autrices plural
  • auteur masculine
  • autaire neuter
  • auteurice neuter
  • auteur·ice neuter
  • auctrice archaic
  • authrice archaic

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce autrice?

  • /o.tʁis/
  • \o.tʁis\
  • [o.t̪ʁ̥is]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to autrice

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is autrice in French?

autrice appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).