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Latin
- noutrix (archaic inscription, CIL 1.45)
Etymology
From earlier *noutrītrīx, from Proto-Italic *snoutrītrīks, equivalent to nūtriō (“to suckle”) + -trīx (“feminine agent-noun suffix”), with haplology simplifying -trītrī- to -trī-.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)