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語源

Inherited from Proto-Italic *(s)noutrī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neu-tr-ih₂-. Can potentially be reanalyzed as nūtriō, nūtrītum (“to suckle”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix), with haplology of -trītrī- to -trī-.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnuː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnuː.t̪riks]

名詞

nūtrīx f (genitive nūtrīcis); third declension

1. a child's nurse; wet nurse; milk mother
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.422:

     magna datī nūtrīx praemia lactis habet

     [How] great the rewards of the milk the wet nurse gave.
     (The she-wolf nurses the twins Romulus and Remus. See wet nurse.)

2. (transferred sense) (anything that provides nutriment and support)
3. (figuratively) (that which rears, originates, promotes or fosters)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• nūtrīcius

派生した語

• Italian: nodrice, nudrice, notrice (archaic), nutrice (latinized)
• Old Spanish: nodriz, nutriz (latinized)

参照

Further reading

• “nūtrix” on page 1330 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŭtrīcia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 248
• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nutrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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)