1. nŏverca — Lewis & Short
nŏverca, ae, f.for noverica, qs. nearikh/, the new one,
I a step-mother, step-dame.
I Lit., Afran. ap. Non. 393, 26:
uxor generi, noverca filii, filiae paelex,Cic. Clu. 70, 199:
cum is (Hippolytus) patri suspectus esset de novercā,id. Off. 3, 25, 94:
saeviores tragicis novercas,Quint. 2, 10, 5 Spald.:
injusta,Verg. E. 3, 33:
saeva,id. G. 2, 128:
scelerata,Ov. F. 3, 853:
lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae,id. M. 1, 147; Gai. Inst. 1, 63; 3, 14; Juv. 6, 403.—Prov.:
apud novercain queri,i. e. in vain, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 80.—
B Trop.:
rerum ipsa natura in eo ... non parens sed noverca fuerit, si, etc.,Quint. 12, 1, 2:
quorum noverca est Italia,i. e. who are not natives of Italy, Vell. 2, 4, 4; so, viles operae, quorum est mea Roma noverca, Petr. poët. Sat. 122, 166.—
II Transf.: nŏvercae, ārum, f.
1 Ditches which drain off the waler imperfectly and slowly, Agrim. ap. Goes. 119; 142; 143 al.—
2 A rough piece of land (so called in allusion to the iniquitas novercae), Hyg. Mun. Castr. § 57 Lange.