The corpus record — Latin

venatrix

venatrix · f

a huntress

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Where it lives

Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

vēnātrix — Lewis & Short

vēnātrix, īcis, f.id.,

I a huntress, Verg. A. 1, 319; 9, 178 Heyne.—As adj.: venatrix dea, i. e. Diana, Ov. M. 2, 454; cf. id. ib. 2, 492; called also puella, Juv. 13, 80: canis, Mart. 11, 69, 2.—Trop.: venatrix sane optima, non ferarum, sed libidinum, Ambros. Virg. 3, 2, 6.

In the wild

venatrix Vergil, Aeneid 1.319
venatrix Vergil, Aeneid 9.178
venatrix Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.495
venatrixque Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.492
venatrix Vergil, Aeneid 11.780
Venatrix Martial, Epigrammata 11.69.2

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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