altricis
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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
- A
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..."- P
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..."