gĕnĕtrix — Lewis & Short
gĕnĕtrix (less freq. gĕnĭtrix; cf. Wagn. īcis, f.genitor,
Verg. G. 4, 363, and Lachm. ad Lucr. II. p. 15 sq.),I she that has borne any one, or produced any thing, a mother (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. mater).
I Lit.: Venus, genetrix patris nostri (Aeneae), Enn. ap. Non. 378, 16 (Ann. v. 53 Vahl.); so of Venus, as the mother of Aeneas, Verg. A. 1, 590; 8, 383; 12, 412; 554;
as the ancestress of the Romans: Aeneadūm genetrix,Lucr. 1, 1;
and of Cæsar,Suet. Caes. 61; 78; 84 (cf.: Venere prognatus, of Cæsar, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; cf. also Suet. Caes. 6 and 49);
as the mother of Amor,Verg. A. 1, 689; of Cybele:
me magna deūm genetrix his detinet oris, (also called Magna Mater),id. ib. 2, 788;
so of the same,id. ib. 9, 82; 94;
117: genetrix Priami de gente vetusta Est mihi (shortly after: parens),id. ib. 9, 284; cf.:
nec ferro ut demens genetricem occidis Orestes (shortly after: occisa parente),Hor. S. 2, 3, 133:
(ciconiae) genetricum senectam invicem educant,Plin. 10, 23, 32, § 63; Vulg. Cant. 3, 4 al.—
II Transf.
A She that produces, a mother:
(tellus) magna deūm mater materque ferarum, et nostri genetrix corporis,Lucr. 2, 599:
patria o mea creatrix! patria o mea genetrix!Cat. 63, 50:
frugum,i. e. Ceres, Ov. M. 5, 490:
Miletus, Ioniae caput, super octoginta urbium per cuncta maria genetrix,mother-city, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112:
Aegyptus vitiorum genetrix,id. 26, 1, 3, § 4:
genetrix virtutum frugalitas,Just. 20, 4.—
B Poet. of a mother-in-law, Ov. M. 9, 326.