The corpus record — Latin

nutrico

nutrico · v. dep

to suckle, nourish, bring up, rear

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Where it lives

Miles Gloriosus 2 · 1.58/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

nūtrīco — Lewis & Short

nūtrīco, āre, and nūtrīcor, ātus, 1, v. dep.id.,

I to suckle, nourish, bring up, rear.

I Lit.: pueros nutricare, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 11: scrofae nutricare octonos porcos parvulos primo possunt, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 13; 2, 2, 8: nutricatur oliva, Afran. ap. Non. 478, 26: viperam sub alā, Petr. 50.—

II Trop., to nourish, support, sustain: bona mea inhiant; at certatim nutricant et munerant, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 120: mundus omnia, sicut membra et partes suas, nutricatur et continet, Cic. N. D. 2, 34, 86 Orell. N. cr.; cf. Non. 478, 21: eum paupertas nutricata est, App. Mag. p. 285, 33.

In the wild

nutricata Apuleius, Apologia 18
nutricatur Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.86
nutricant Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.1
nutricatu Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 3.1

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