nutritor
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nutrior, nutriri, nutritus sum:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
suckle. breast feed; nourish/feed/fuel, supply, build up; preserve, look after;; rear/raise; foster/encourage; tend/treat (wound/sick person); deal gently with;
sg. fut. imp. 2ndsg. fut. imp. 3rd - Entry →nutrio, nutrire, nutrivi, nutritus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
suckle. breast feed; nourish/feed/fuel, supply, build up; preserve, look after;; rear/raise; foster/encourage; tend/treat (wound/sick person); deal gently with;
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...saturat Calabris culta Galaesus aquis? An Tartesiaeus stabuli nutritor Hiberi Baetis in Hesperia te quoque lauit..."De grammaticis
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...Gnipho, ingenuus in Gallia natus sed expositus, a nutritore suo manumissus institutusque (Alexandriae quidem, ut aliqui tradunt..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sapiens": XXVIII. quaedam verba appellationibus similia, ut "fraudator" "nutritor". Iam "itur in antiquam silvam" nonne propriae cuiusdam rationis..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...aduersis animoque adsurgit Adrastus. uertice sic Pholoes uolucrum nutritor equorum, cum fetura gregem pecoroso uere nouauit, laetatur cernens..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...uomere, fruges. hoc pinguem et placitam Paci nutritor oliuam. Poma quoque, ut primum truncos sensere ualentis et uiris..."