The corpus record — Latin

educatrix

educatrix · f

She who brings up

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ēdŭcātrix — Lewis & Short

ēdŭcātrix, īcis, f.educator.

I She who brings up, a nurse, Col. 8, 11, 14; Inscr. Don. 14, no. 39.—

II Transf.: earum (rerum) parens est educatrixque sapientia, Cic. Leg. 1, 24, 62.

In the wild

educatrices Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 9
educatrice Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.11.14
educatrix Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.9
educatrix Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.11

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.