Beatrix would (I think) mean “she who is blessed” in Latin, with the masculine being Beatus (which, while it sounds like a joke redneck name today, is seen in the title of European religious music, and is pronounced in three syllables as “bee-ate-us”)
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The Japanese word for cat, “neko”, apparently etymologically translates as “quadruped that goes ‘nyan’” (which is the Japanese equivalent of “meow”). The Mandarin word for cat, IIRC, is “mao”.


There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.” would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs