The corpus record — Latin

nutricula

nutricula · f

a nurse

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

nūtrīcŭla — Lewis & Short

nūtrīcŭla, ae, f.dim.id.,

I a nurse.

I Lit.: quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno? Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 8; Suet. Aug. 94: fabulae nutricularum, Quint. 1, 9, 2.—

II Transf., she who nourishes, maintains, preserves a thing: nutriculae praediorum, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 12: Gellius nutricula seditiosorum, id. Vatin. 2, 4: nutricula causidicorum Africa, Juv. 7, 148: casa nutricula, in which one was brought up, Quint. Decl. 13, 4.

In the wild

nutriculae Suetonius, Nero 42.1
nutricula Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 277
nutricula Suetonius, Divus Augustus 94.6
nutricula Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.12
nutricula Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 257
nutricula Horace, Epistulae 1.4.8

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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