Latin

Noun

meretrīx f ‎(genitive meretrīcis); third declension

1. (slang) courtesan, prostitute, harlot

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• lēna

Descendants

• Italian: meretrice
• Old English: myltestre
• Portuguese: meretriz
• Spanish: meretriz

References

• meretrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meretrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “meretrix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• meretrix in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers