altrix

altrix, īcis, f. [altor],

• a female nourisher, cherisher, sustainer (mostly poet.; cf. alumnus): Calydonia altrix terra exsuperantum virum, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: eorum eadem terra parens, altrix, patria dicitur, Cic. Fl. 26; id. Tim. 10: altricem Ulixi, Verg. A. 3, 273.—Without terra: altricis extra limen Apuliae, * Hor. C. 3, 4, 10; so once in Cic.: Romani nominis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 12, 20: Idā altrice relictā (since Hermaphroditus had been brought up there), Ov. M. 4, 293: Sanguinis altricem non pudet esse lupam, * Prop. 5, 1, 38: bellorum bellatorumque virorum, Sil. 1, 218. —Esp., of a wet-nurse, Ov. M. 11, 683; so Stat. Th. 1, 602; Sil. 2, 1, 96; Sen. Hippol. 251; id. Herc. Oet. 450; Gell. 12, 20.

altrix, īcis, f. (altor), die Ernährerin, Pflegerin, Pflegemutter, terra altr. nostra, Cic.: altr. terra superantum virum, Pacuv. fr.: terra altr. Ulixi, Vaterland, Verg.: terra illa altrix equorum, Solin. 45, 5: altr. nostri Tolosa, Auson.: nix, schneeiges Vaterland, Val. Flacc.: Venus amoris altr., Laev. fr.: natura vigoris sui altr., Ambros.: adulatio vitiorum altr., Amm.: altricia terga, Ennod. – insbes. (= nutrix), die Säugerin, Amme, Erzieherin, Cic. poët. u.a.

altrix [CL] , fostermother, nourisher (f.). b (fig.). 10‥ ~ix, festermodor WW; ~ix reparatoris carnis meae, lactatrix Salvatoris Anselm (Or. 7) II 19; ~ix militaris matrona prolis Osb. Clar. Ep. 33 p. 118; altricis mentita fidem J. Exon. BT II 544.  b altrix cunctorum quos mundus gestat Aldh. Aen. 1 (Terra) 1; Ermenburgis ‥ totius criminis altrix Frith. 949.

altrīx, (12) īcis, f. (altor), celle qui nourrit, nourrice : Cic. Fl. 62.

altrix , icis. f.
養之婦。餧之婦。

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altrīx īcis, f

• altor, a foster-mother, cherisher, sustainer: eorum terra altrix dicitur: Ulixi, V.: altricis limen Apuliae, H.—A wet-nurse, O.