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nutricius

nutricius · adj

that suckles, nourishes, nurses

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

nūtrīcĭus — Lewis & Short

nūtrīcĭus and -tĭus, a, um, adj.nutrix,

I that suckles, nourishes, nurses.

I Adj.: quis Faustulum nescit pastorem fuisse nutricium, qui Romulum et Remum educavit? Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9: nutriciae curae, Arn. 2, 58: humus radices tenero velut nutricio sinu recipit, Col. 3, 13, 7.—

II Subst.

A nūtrīcĭus, ii, m., a bringer up, a tutor: erat in procuratione regni, propter aetatem pueri, nutricius ejus, Caes. B. C. 3, 107; Inscr. Orell. 2964.—Also, transf.: Favonius afflatu nutricium exercebit, Plin. 18, 34, 67, § 337.—

B nūtrī-cĭa, ae, f., a nurse, governess, tutoress, Hier. Ep. 108, n. 30.—

C nūtrīcĭum, ii, n., a nursing; nourishment: illius pio maternoque nutricio aeger convalui, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 2: nutricia ducere ab aliquo, Arn. 5, 163: omnia infantum nutricia, Manil. 3, 133.—

2 In plur.: nūtrīcĭa, ōrum, n., a nurse's wages, ta\ qrepth/ria (late Lat.), Dig. 50, 13, 1 fin.

In the wild

nutricium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 117.2
nutricium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.34.p3
nutricius Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.112.12
nutricius Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.108.1
nutricio Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.19.2
nutricium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.4

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