rinatrix

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin rinatrix (in Bartholomaeus Anglicus), apparently a misreading of Lucan 9.720 et natrix (“and the water snake”).

Noun

rinatrix

  1. (obsolete) A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water. [14th-19th c.]
    • 1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest:
      Rinatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth ye water, so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth, he infecteth it.
    • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
      Mountebank with thy pedantical action, / Rinatrix, bugle-ox, rhinoceros.
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