Latin

Noun

nūtrīx f ‎(genitive nūtrīcis); third declension

1. wet nurse, nurse

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: nurse
• French: nourrice
• Italian nutrice
• Norman: nouôrriche
• Portuguese: nutriz
• Spanish: nodriza

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nutrix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)