servatrix

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

servātrix, īcis, f. [servator].

I She that keeps or preserves , a (female) savior , deliverer , Ter. Hec. 856: sui, Cic. Fin. 5, 9, 26: servatrix celebrabere, Ov. M. 7, 50: cohortis Inachiae, Stat. Th. 5, 672.—As an epithet of goddesses , Inscr. Gud. 31, 7; 52, 5; Inscr. Fabr. 470, 109 and 110: pectoris, protectress , guardian , Stat. Th. 12, 606.—*

II With an abstr. object, an observer , fulfiller : convenientiae, Ap. Dogm. Plat. p. 15, 32.

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