The moetzes, in their psak halacha that a woman cannot be called Rabbi because there is no smicha for a woman AFFIRM that the term IS a technical, smicha related word.
The Moetzes doesn’t have the final say on the English language (of which “Rabbi” is a word). They may say that a woman can not be the leader of a community or Kehilah. But to be called “Rabbi”? “Rabbi” Sally Priesand is a “Rabbi”.
We have so many titles that we seemingly have to keep adding new ones. When I was a kid, I don’t remember a single “Adoneinu Moreinu V’Rabbeinu Harav HaGaon….”
Because the prior ones are meaningless. Each additional term has a short shelf life, and then they need to add a new one.