nutricius
Latin
Etymology
From nūtriō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /nuːˈtriː.ki.us/, [nuːˈt̪riːkiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nuˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/, [nuˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]
Adjective
nūtrīcius (feminine nūtrīcia, neuter nūtrīcium); first/second-declension adjective
- that suckles or nurses
- nourishing
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nūtrīcius | nūtrīcia | nūtrīcium | nūtrīciī | nūtrīciae | nūtrīcia | |
| Genitive | nūtrīciī | nūtrīciae | nūtrīciī | nūtrīciōrum | nūtrīciārum | nūtrīciōrum | |
| Dative | nūtrīciō | nūtrīciō | nūtrīciīs | ||||
| Accusative | nūtrīcium | nūtrīciam | nūtrīcium | nūtrīciōs | nūtrīciās | nūtrīcia | |
| Ablative | nūtrīciō | nūtrīciā | nūtrīciō | nūtrīciīs | |||
| Vocative | nūtrīcie | nūtrīcia | nūtrīcium | nūtrīciī | nūtrīciae | nūtrīcia | |
Descendants
- French: nourrice
- Norman: nouôrriche
- Romanian: nutreț
- Spanish: nodriza
References
- “nutricius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nutricius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nutricius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nutricius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.