The corpus record — Latin

obstetrix

obstetrix · f

a midwife

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Where it lives

Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Adelphi 4 · 4.04/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Andria 3 · 3.05/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

obstē^trix — Lewis & Short

obstē^trix (opst-) or obstī^trix (opst-), īcis, f.obsto,

I a midwife: peperit Sine obstetricis operā, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 22; id. Capt. 3, 4, 96: mittere ad obstetricem, Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 5; Hor. Epod. 17, 51; Vulg. Exod. 1, 15: obstetricum nobilitas, Plin. 28, 6, 18, § 67; Paul. Sent. 2, 24, 8 sq.

In the wild

obstetrix Terence, Andria front.cast
obstetricem Plautus, Truculentus 1.2
obstetricum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.6.p4
obstetrice Tertullian, De Anima 39
obstetrices Tertullian, De Carne Christi 20
obstetrix Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.3

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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