altrici
Dictionary entries
- Entry →altrix, altricis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
nourisher, sustainer; wet nurse, nurse; foster mother; motherland, homeland;
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...uidelicet in moribus inolescendis magnam fere partem ingenium altricis et natura lactis tenet, quae iam a principio imbuta..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ferrumque, tuli, dum deside cura credo sinus fidos altricis et ubera mando. quidni ego? narrabat seruatum fraude parentem..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ipsa ferit nec crines solvere curat: scindit et altrici, quae luctus causa, roganti 'nulla est Alcyone, nulla..."