domitrix

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

dŏmĭtrix, īcis, f. [domitor], she who tames or subdues (very rare).

I Prop.: equorum Epidaurus, Verg. G. 3, 44; cf.: FERARVM DOMITRICEM DIANAM, Inscr. Orell. 1447; and poet.: ferarum clava (Herculis), Ov. H. 9, 117.—

II Transf.: rerum omnium (ferrum), Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 127.

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