nūtrix | notrix (noun F) : (old orthogr. , acc. to Quint. 1, 4, 16), , nutrio
* A wet-nurse, nurse.
* Lit.: omnia minima mansa, ut nutrices infantibus pueris, in os inserant,Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162: cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse,id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2: sidera nutricem nutricis fertile cornu Fecit,Ov. F. 5, 127; Verg. A. 4, 632; 5, 645: Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,Hor. C. 1, 22, 15: gallina nutrix,a hen that has chickens,Col. 8, 11, 13: nutricis tolerare labores,Juv. 6, 593: mater nutrix,a mother that suckles her own infant,Gell. 12, 1, 5; Inscr. Fabr. p. 188, n. 428: est enim illa (oratio) quasi nutrix ejus oratoris, quem informare volumus,Cic. Or. 11, 37: nutricis pallium (prov. of any thing soiled, dirty),Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 30.
* Transf.
* Trop., a nurse: nostramne, ere, vis nutricem, quae nos educat, Abalienare a nobis,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111: curarum maxima nutrix Nox,Ov. M. 8, 81: Sicilia nutrix plebis Romanae,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 5: nutrix Discordia belli,Claud. in Ruf. 1, 30.
* Nutrices, the breasts, Cat. 64, 18.
* A piece of ground in which shoots of trees are planted in order to be set out again, a nursery garden, Plin. 17, 10, 12, § 66.
* The land that supports a family, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111.