Nutricius, Adiectiuum. Colum Pertaining to nourishing, or he that nonrisheth.Nutritium nutritij, Substantiuum, n. g. Senec.Nourishing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nūtrīcĭus and -tĭus, a, um, adj. [nutrix], that suckles, nourishes, nurses. I.Adj.: quis Faustulum nescit pastorem fuisse nutricium, qui Romulum et Remum educavit?Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9: nutriciae curae, Arn. 2, 58: humus radices tenero velut nutricio sinu recipit, Col. 3, 13, 7.—II.Subst.A. nūtrīcĭus, ii, m., a bringer up, a tutor: erat in procuratione regni, propter aetatem pueri, nutricius ejus, Caes. B. C. 3, 107; Inscr. Orell. 2964.—Also, transf.: Favonius afflatu nutricium exercebit, Plin. 18, 34, 67, 337.—B. nūtrī-cĭa, ae, f., a nurse, governess, tutoress, Hier. Ep. 108, n. 30.—C. nūtrīcĭum, ii, n., a nursing; nourishment: illius pio maternoque nutricio aeger convalui, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 2: nutricia ducere ab aliquo, Arn. 5, 163: omnia infantum nutricia, Manil. 3, 133.—2. In plur.: nūtrīcĭa, ōrum, n., a nurse's wages, ta\ qrepth/ria (late Lat.), Dig. 50, 13, 1 fin.
, Gell. 12, 1, 5; Inscr. Fabr. p. 188, n. 428: est enim illa (oratio) quasi nutrix ejus oratoris, quem informare volumus, Cic. Or. 11, 37: nutricis pallium (prov. of any thing soiled, dirty), Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 30.—B.Transf.1.She who nourishes or maintains a thing: virgines perpetui nutrices et conservatrices ignis, Arn. 4, 151. —2. Nutrices, the breasts, Cat. 64, 18.—3.A piece of ground in which shoots of trees are planted in order to be set out again, a nursery garden, Plin. 17, 10, 12, 66.—4.The land that supports a family, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111.—II.Trop., a nurse: nostramne, ere, vis nutricem, quae nos educat, Abalienare a nobis, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111: curarum maxima nutrix Nox, Ov. M. 8, 81: Sicilia nutrix plebis Romanae, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, 5: nutrix Discordia belli, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 30.