The corpus record — Latin

receptrix

receptrix · f

She that receives

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Where it lives

In C. Verrem 3 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

rĕceptrix — Lewis & Short

rĕceptrix, īcis, f.receptor.

I She that receives, App. Mund. p. 66, 17; id. Asclep. p. 77, 30; p. 287 Bip.; Ambros. in Luc. 8, 52.—

II In a bad sense, she that harbors or conceals: Messana, praedarum ac furtorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 8, § 17; 2, 5, 62, § 160.

In the wild

receptricem Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.160
receptrix Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.17
receptricem Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.150

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.