amatrix

Latin > English

amatrix (gen.), amatricis ADJ :: amorous; (applied to things)
amatrix amatrix amatricis N F :: sweetheart, mistress; hussy; woman who loves (in sexual sense)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ămātrĭx: īcis, f. id.,
I a female lover, in an honorable and a dishonorable sense, a mistress, sweetheart (syn.: amans, amica): Sappho amatrix, Mart. 7, 69, 9: dicacula, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 8; id. Poen. 5, 5, 25.—Used as adj.: amatrices aquae, amorous, Mart. 7, 15; 10, 4.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

ămātrīx,¹⁶ īcis, f., amoureuse, amante : Pl. As. 511 ; Pœn. 1304.

Latin > German (Georges)

amātrīx, īcis, f. (Femin. zu amator, s. Prisc. 18, 17 u. inst. de nom. 71), I) die Freundin von jmd. od. etw., pauperum, Corp. inscr. Lat. 5, 6286 (a. 487): spiritualis pulchritudinis, Augustin. ep. 211, 16: una (pars) mundi am., Salv. adv. avar. 3, 1. – II) die Liebende, das Liebchen, die Buhle, Plaut. asin. 517. Apul. apol. 78 u. 85. – attribut., am. Africa, das buhlerische A. = die Buhle aus A., Plaut. Poen. 1304: Sappho, Mart. 7, 69, 9: aquae, Mart. 7, 15, 4 u. 10, 4, 6.