Méretrix, pen. cor meretiîcis. f. g. pen prod. Terent.A harlor: a brothell: an whore: a strumpet: a light housewife.Amor turpis meretricis. Horat. Artes sacrilegæ meretricum.Ouid.Alicariæ meretrices. Fest. Arguta meretrix. Horat. Blanda meretrix. Ouid.Commoda meretrix, Vide COMMODVS.Lutea meretrix.Plaut.Mercabilis merertrix certo ære.Ouid.An whore to be hyred for money. Auellere se meretrice. Vide AVELLO. Amica meretrice insanire. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mĕrētrix, īcis (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.