nutrix
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- noutrix (archaic inscription, CIL 1.45)
Etymology
[edit]From earlier *noutrītrīx, from Proto-Italic *snoutrītrīks, equivalent to nūtriō (“to suckle”) + -trīx (“feminine agent-noun suffix”), with haplology simplifying -trītrī- to -trī-.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnuː.triːks/, [ˈnuːt̪riːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnu.triks/, [ˈnuːt̪riks]
Noun
[edit]nūtrīx f (genitive nūtrīcis); third declension
- a child's nurse; wet nurse; milk mother
- (transferred sense) (anything that provides nutriment and support)
- (figuratively) (that which rears, originates, promotes or fosters)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nūtrīx | nūtrīcēs |
Genitive | nūtrīcis | nūtrīcum |
Dative | nūtrīcī | nūtrīcibus |
Accusative | nūtrīcem | nūtrīcēs |
Ablative | nūtrīce | nūtrīcibus |
Vocative | nūtrīx | nūtrīcēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “nūtrix” on page 1330 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭtrīcia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 248
- “nutrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nutrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nutrix 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)
- nutrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
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