The corpus record — Latin

meretrix

a prostitute, harlot

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 10 · 19.12/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 9 · 15.55/10k
Menaechmi 13 · 13.68/10k
Hecyra 9 · 9.98/10k
Controversiae 64 · 9.7/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Eunuchus 8 · 7.38/10k
Truculentus 6 · 7.32/10k
Poenulus 8 · 7.25/10k
Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 12 · 5.6/10k
Bacchides 5 · 5.07/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĕrē^trix — Lewis & Short

mĕrē^trix, īcis (

I gen. plur. meretricium, Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 22: meretricum, id. Ep. 2, 2, 29; Ov. A. A. 1, 435), f. mereo; she who earns moncy; hence, a prostitute, harlot, courtesan: ita sunt hic meretrices omnes elecebrae argentariae, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 26: meretricem indigne deperit, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 66: proterva meretrix procaxque, Cic Cael. 20, 49: meretrix inter multos se dividit, Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 4: stat meretrix certo cuivis mercabilis aere, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 21: Augusta, i. e. Messalina, Juv. 6, 118: regina, i. e. Cleopatra, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119: Manilia, Gell. 4, 14, 3.

Where it came from

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