amatrix
λύχνον μεθ' ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ → he lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a man
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.
Latin > Chinese
amatrix, icis. f. :: 私爱之女。— aqua 引愛之水。 — tristis 佯悶。裝憂悶。
