Other forms: sorceresses
A sorceress is a woman who works magic. She belongs to fairy tales, myths and fantasy, and she is usually powerful and usually dangerous.
The male form is sorcerer, and the practice is sorcery. English has a cluster of these words with slightly different flavours: a witch is folk-magical and often village-scale, a sorceress is grander and more studied, an enchantress works by charm rather than power, and a magician may just do tricks. Note the -ess ending, which English has been retiring elsewhere but keeps here because the setting is old stories. Sorcerer's Apprentice is the fixed phrase most people know the family from.
1nounsorceressA woman who works magic.
“The sorceress turns the crew into pigs.”
sorceress is a worker of magic.
Old French sorcier came from Latin sors, a lot or a share — the thing you draw when casting lots. A sorcerer was originally somebody who told fortunes by drawing lots, which is a much quieter job than the modern word suggests.
Anglo-Norman
sorceresse
Middle English
sorceresse
English, today
sorceress
From Middle English sorceresse, from Anglo-Norman sorceresse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA