The corpus record — Latin

janitrix

janitrix · f

a female door-keeper, a portress

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

jānĭtrix — Lewis & Short

jānĭtrix, īcis, f.janitor,

I a female door-keeper, a portress.

I Lit.: anus hic solet cubitare custos, janitrix, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 76.—

II Transf.: laurus janitrix Caesarum, i. e. planted in front of the house, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 127.

In the wild

ianitrix Plautus, Curculio 1.1
ianitrix Tertullian, De Anima 55
ianitrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.30.p1

Where it came from

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