amatrix

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ămātrĭx, īcis, f. [amator],

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.