meretrix

Latin > English

meretrix meretricis N F :: courtesan, kept woman; public prostitute; harlot

English synonyms

abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowess, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, call girl, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, courtesan, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mudkicker, mud-kicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pretty horsebreaker, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, rannel, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, streetwalker, streetworker, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mĕrē̆trix: īcis (
I gen. plur. meretricium, Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 22: meretricum, id. Ep. 2, 2, 29; Ov. A. A. 1, 435), f. mereo; she who earns moncy; hence, a prostitute, harlot, courtesan: ita sunt hic meretrices omnes elecebrae argentariae, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 26: meretricem indigne deperit, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 66: proterva meretrix procaxque, Cic Cael. 20, 49: meretrix inter multos se dividit, Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 4: stat meretrix certo cuivis mercabilis aere, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 21: Augusta, i. e. Messalina, Juv. 6, 118: regina, i. e. Cleopatra, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119: Manilia, Gell. 4, 14, 3.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

mĕrĕtrīx,¹⁰ īcis, f. (mereo), courtisane, femme publique : Cic. Cæl. 49 ; Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 4 ; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 21 ; meretrix mulier Pl. St. 746, femme courtisane, cf. Plin. 9, 119.

Latin > German (Georges)

meretrīx, trīcis, f. (mereo), mit u. ohne mulier, die (öffentliche) Buhldirne, das Freudenmädchen, Comic. vett., Cic. u.a.: appell., mulier m., Plaut. Men. 261 u. 335; Stich. 746: regina m., Plin. 9, 119. – / Nom. Plur. auch meretricis, Turpil. com. 186: Genet. Plur. gew. meretricum; selten meretricium, Sen. contr. 1, 2, 5. – Nbf. menetrīx, Non. 423, 13 codd. Prob. app. (IV) 198, 28 (wo zu lesen menetrix non menetris); vgl. Bücheler N. Jahrbb. 105, 113.

Latin > Chinese

meretrix, icis. f. :: 娼婦。妓女

Translations

Afrikaans: prostituut; Albanian: prostitutë, kurvë; Arabic: دَاعِرَة‎, بَغِيَّة‎, عَاهِرَة‎, زَانِيَّة‎, فَاحِشَة‎; Armenian: պոռնիկ, պոռնկուհի, մարմնավաճառ, մարմնավաճառուհի, բոզ; Asturian: prostitutu, prostituta; Azerbaijani: fahişə; Bashkir: фәхишә, уйнашсы; Basque: prostituta; Belarusian: прастытутка, курва; Bengali: বেশ্যা; Breton: gast; Bulgarian: проститутка, курва; Burmese: ပြည့်တန်ဆာ, ဇိမ်မယ်, အပြာမယ်; Catalan: prostitut, prostituta; Chinese Mandarin: 妓女, 妓男, 雞, 鸡, 鴨, 鸭, 雞婆, 鸡婆, 娼妓, 風塵女, 风尘女; Czech: prostitutka, kurva; Danish: prostitueret, ludder, glædespige, trækkerdreng, skøge, sexsælger, sexarbejder; Dutch: prostituee, prostituée, prostitué, hoer; Esperanto: prostituito, prostituitino, ĉiesulo, ĉiesulino, amoristo, amoristino, sinvendisto, sinvendistino; Estonian: prostituut, hoor; Ewe: ahasi, gbolo; Faroese: skøkja; Finnish: prostituoitu; huora, hutsu, ilotyttö; French: prostitué, prostituée, fille des rues, fille de joie; Galician: prostituto, prostituta, puta; Georgian: სექს-მუშაკი, მეძავი, ბოზი, როსკიპი; German: Prostituierter, Prostituierte; Greek: αγοραία γυναίκα, γυναίκα του δρόμου, γυναίκα του πεζοδρομίου, δημόσια, δημόσια γυναίκα, ιέρεια της Αφροδίτης, ιέρεια του έρωτα, ιερόδουλη, καλντεριμιτζού, καλτάκα, κάνει πεζοδρόμιο, κάνει πιάτσα, κοινή, κοινή γυναίκα, κοκότα, κούρβα, πολιτικιά, πόρνη, πουτάνα, σκρόφα, του δρόμου, του πεζοδρομίου, τροτέζα; Ancient Greek: ἄλοχος, ἀνδροκάπραινα, γεφυρίς, γυνὴ ἔνδοξος, δημιουργός, δρομάς, ἐνδιαλλαγμένη, ἐνδιηλλαγμένη, ἐπιμισθίς, ἐργάτις, ἑταίρα, ἑταίρη, ἑτάρη, ἱππόπορνος, κασαλβάς, κασάλβη, κασαύρα, κάσσα, κασσαβάς, κασωρίς, κατακᾶσα, κατάκασσα, κλύσμα, κοινή, κοινόλεκτρος, λαικάς, λαικάστρια, λυπτά, λωγάς, μαχλίς, μισήτη, μυλλάς, παλλακή, πασιπόρνη, πορνεύτρια, πόρνη, πόρνος, πτωχελένη, σαλμακίς, σποδησιλαύρα, στεγῖτις, φορβάς, χαλιμάς, χαλκιδῖτις, χαμαιτύπη, χαμαιτυπίς, χαμεταιρίς, χαμευνάς; Hausa: karuwa; Hebrew: זוֹנָה‎, זוֹנֶה‎; Hindi: वेश्या, गणिका, पतिता; Hungarian: prostituált, prosti, örömlány; Icelandic: vændiskona, skækja, gleðikona, hóra; Ido: prostituco; Indonesian: pekerja seks komersial, PSK, lonte, pelacur; Irish: striapach, meirdreach, bean sráide, bean choiteann, eachlach; Italian: prostituta, squillo, battona, puttana, baldracca, sgualdrina; Japanese: 売春婦, 娼婦, 街娼; Kazakh: жәлеп, жезөкше, ойнасқор, салдақы; Khmer: ស្រីខូច, ពេស្យា; Korean: 매춘부(賣春婦), 창녀, 갈보, 논다니, 가창; Kyrgyz: проститутка, сойку, жалап; Lao: ກາລີ, ເພດສຍາ; Latin: spintria, meretrix, scortum; Latvian: prostitūta; Lithuanian: prostitutė; Luhya: mng'ang'ule, mng'ang'ule; Macedonian: проститутка, курва; Malay: pelacur; Malayalam: വേശ്യ; Maltese: prostituta, prostitut, qaħba, ġerrej; Manx: streebagh, strumpag, oainjyr, ben oainjyragh; Maori: kairau, wahine tīweka, tāne tīweka; Mongolian: янхан эмэгтэй, хөлсний этгээд; Nahuatl: ahuiyani; Norman: prostituée; Norwegian: prostituert; Occitan: prostituta; Old East Slavic: курва; Old English: portcwene, myltestre, hore; Papiamentu: mohé di bida; Pashto: فاحشه‎; Persian: روسپی‎, تن‌فروش‎, فاحشه‎, جنده‎; Plautdietsch: Hua, Zelj; Polish: prostytutka, męska prostytutka, kurwa; Portuguese: prostituta, mulher da vida; Romanian: prostituată, curvă, târfă; Russian: проститутка, шлюха, блядь, курва; Sanskrit: वेश्या, रूपाजीवा; Scottish Gaelic: siùrsach, strìopach; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: проститутка, курва; Roman: pròstitūtka, kȗrva; Slovak: prostitútka, kurva, cundra; Slovene: prostitutka, kurba; Spanish: prostituta; Swahili: malaya, kahaba, changudoa, kiberenge; Swedish: prostituerad, hora; Tajik: фоҳиша; Tatar: фәхишә; Telugu: వేశ్య; Thai: โสเภณี, แพศยา; Tibetan: གཞང་ཚོང་མ; Turkish: orospu, fahişe, hayat kadını, orta malı, paçoz, sürtük, seks işçisi, kevaşe, nataşa; Turkmen: jelep; Ukrainian: проститутка, пові́я, шлюха, курва; Urdu: ویشیا‎, فاحشہ‎; Uyghur: پاھىشە‎, جالاپ‎; Uzbek: fohisha, buzuq; Vietnamese: đĩ, điếm, gái mại dâm; Volapük: prostitan, hiprostitan, jiprostitan, nepuedan, hinepuedan, jinepuedan; Welsh: putain; Yiddish: זונה‎, הור