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Replying to @ultimape @eigenrobot
as I understand it, "mistress" is from the nobility. "master" and "mistress" are the lowest possible noble titles; if Sir So-and-So has a mistress, he also has Dame So-and-So, his wife
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etymology mistress is a corruption of an original latin ancestor (magister) latin nouns for "someone who does something" often end in -or/-er for masculine cases, and -rix in female variants the female part of English -er (m) / -ress (f) is a corroption: -rix softens to -ress
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Misstrix now seems like a great word for extra-marital lover
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