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nūtrīcĭus and -tĭus, a, um, adj. [nutrix], that suckles, nourishes, nurses.

  1. I. Adj.: quis Faustulum nescit pastorem fuisse nutricium, qui Romulum et Remum educavit? Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9: nutriciae curae, Arn. 2, 58: humus radices tenero velut nutricio sinu recipit, Col. 3, 13, 7.
  2. II. Subst.
    1. A. nūtrīcĭus, ii, m., a bringer up, a tutor: erat in procuratione regni, propter aetatem pueri, nutricius ejus, Caes. B. C. 3, 107; Inscr. Orell. 2964.
      Also, transf.: Favonius afflatu nutricium exercebit, Plin. 18, 34, 67, § 337.
    2. B. nūtrī-cĭa, ae, f., a nurse, governess, tutoress, Hier. Ep. 108, n. 30.
    3. C. nūtrīcĭum, ii, n., a nursing; nourishment: illius pio maternoque nutricio aeger convalui, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 2: nutricia ducere ab aliquo, Arn. 5, 163: omnia infantum nutricia, Manil. 3, 133.
      1. 2. In plur.: nūtrīcĭa, ōrum, n., a nurse’s wages, τὰ θρεπτήρια (late Lat.), Dig. 50, 13, 1 fin.

nūtrix (old orthogr. notrix, acc. to Quint. 1, 4, 16), īcis, f. [nutrio], a wet-nurse, nurse.

  1. I. 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.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 1. She who nourishes or maintains a thing: virgines perpetui nutrices et conservatrices ignis, Arn. 4, 151.
      2. 2. Nutrices, the breasts, Cat. 64, 18.
      3. 3. 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.
      4. 4. The land that supports a family, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111.
  2. II. 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.