altrix Latin · revision 33832

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *h₂el-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈaɫ.triːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈal.triks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''altrīx''' ''f'' (genitive altrīcis, masculine altor); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|alō|-trīx|t1=to nourish, rear]], the feminine counterpart of [[m|la|altor|t=nourisher]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|alō]] to [[itc-pro|*ale/o-|t=to feed]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-e/o-]], with a cognate in [[sga|no-t·ail|t=to feed, raise]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pacuvius has it first, of a homeland: ''Calydonia altrix terra exsuperantum virum'', “Calydon, land that nursed men of surpassing strength”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense is a foster mother or wet nurse, as in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''.^(OLD 2012) Cicero calls the earth our nourisher in his ''Timaeus'', and in the ''Pro Flacco'' a land that is parent, nurse and fatherland of a people.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil calls a land the nurse of Ulysses, and Martial of the earth that feeds truffles.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also works as an adjective, “nourishing”, feminine only in the singular.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius calls Calydon the land that nursed its men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the earth as the nourisher of all.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of the nurse of Ulysses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a foster mother.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|foster mother]], [[m|en|wet nurse]], nurse.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of the earth and the like, a nourisher, [[m|en|sustainer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of a country, a motherland, homeland.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|nourishing|alt=Nourishing]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[alō]]

+ * [[altor]]

+ * [[alumnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}