Latin

Noun

stercēia f ‎(genitive stercēiae); first declension

1. a maidservant who cleans the excrement from children
   • c. 160 CE - 225 CE, Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos, VIII:

     Quārē nōn et stercēiae et syntrophī nōminantur?

     Why are there neither excrement maids nor childhood companions named?

Declension

First declension.

References

• sterceia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sterceia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.