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1 altor
altor ōris, m [alo], a nourisher, sustainer, foster-father: omnium rerum: altore recepto, O.* * *nourisher, sustainer; foster father, one who raises another's child -
2 altrīx
altrīx īcis, f [altor], a foster-mother, cherisher, sustainer: eorum terra altrix dicitur: Ulixi, V.: altricis limen Apuliae, H.— A wet-nurse, O.* * *nourisher, sustainer; wet nurse, nurse; foster mother; motherland, homeland -
3 altor
altor, ōris, m. [alo].I.Subst., a nourisher, sustainer, foster-father: omnium rerum educator et altor, * Cic. N. D. 2, 34:II.altore recepto,
Ov. M. 11, 101: Curetes altores Jovis, * Sall. ap. Lact. 1, 21 fin.; so * Tac. A. 6, 37; Sen. Herc. Fur. 1247; * Stat. S. 2, 1, 69.—Worshipped as a god, Varr. Fragm. p. 226 Bip.; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei, 23 fin. —Adj., nutritious:suci altores,
Nemes. Cyn. 257. -
4 altrix
altrix, īcis, f. [altor], a female nourisher, cherisher, sustainer (mostly poet.; cf. alumnus): Calydonia altrix terra exsuperantum virum, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.:eorum eadem terra parens, altrix, patria dicitur,
Cic. Fl. 26; id. Tim. 10:altricem Ulixi,
Verg. A. 3, 273.—Without terra: altricis extra limen Apuliae, * Hor. C. 3, 4, 10; so once in Cic.: Romani nominis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 12, 20:Idā altrice relictā (since Hermaphroditus had been brought up there),
Ov. M. 4, 293: Sanguinis altricem non pudet esse lupam, * Prop. 5, 1, 38:bellorum bellatorumque virorum,
Sil. 1, 218. —Esp., of a wet-nurse, Ov. M. 11, 683; so Stat. Th. 1, 602; Sil. 2, 1, 96; Sen. Hippol. 251; id. Herc. Oet. 450; Gell. 12, 20. -
5 alumnus
ălumnus, a, um, adj. [qs. contr. of alomenos, from alo].I. A. 1.Lit. (most freq. in the poets.): desiderio alumnūm ( = alumnorum), Pac. ap. Non. 243, 6 (Trag. Rel. p. 116 Rib.):2.erus atque alumnus tuus sum,
Plaut. Merc. 4, 5, 7:quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno?
Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 8; Verg. A. 11, 33:Tityon, terrae omniparentis alumnum,
id. ib. 6, 595; so Ov. M. 4, 524; cf.with 421: legionum alumnus,
i. e. brought up in the camp, Tac. A. 1, 44; cf. id. 1, 41:Vatinius sutrinae tabernae alumnus,
id. ib. 15, 34:suum flevit alumnum,
Val. Fl. 8, 94: alumni hominum peccatorum, * Vulg. Num. 32, 14.—Of the inhabitants of a country (cf. altrix):Italia alumnum suum summo supplicio fixum videret,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66;of cattle: Faune, abeas parvis Aequus alumnis,
Hor. C. 3, 18, 3; so id. ib. 3, 23, 7.—Trop.:B.ego itaque pacis, ut ita dicam, alumnus,
Cic. Phil. 7, 3:alumnus fortunae,
a child of fortune, Plin. 7, 7, 5, § 43.—Hence, of pupils:Platonis alumnus,
pupil, disciple, Cic. Fin. 4, 26:alumnus disciplinae meae,
id. Fam. 9, 14.—ălumna, ae, f., a foster-daughter, a pupil:C.nostra haec alumna,
Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 96:Italia omnium terrarum alumna eadem et parens (i. e. quae ab aliis terris alitur),
Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 39:aliquam filiam et alumnam praedicare,
Suet. Claud. 39:trepidam hortatur alumnam,
Val. Fl. 5, 358.—Of frogs: aquai dulcis alumnae, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15.— Trop.: cana veritas Atticae philosophiae alumna, truth, the foster-child of Attic philosophy, Varr. ap. Non. 243, 2: jam bene constitutae civitatis quasi alumna quaedam, eloquentia, the foster-child of an already well-ordered state, * Cic. Brut. 12, 45:cliens et alumna Urbis Ostia (as a colony of the same),
Flor. 3, 21.—The neutr.:II.numen alumnum,
Ov. M. 4, 421.—In late Lat., act., nourishing; or subst., nourisher, one who brings up or educates:cygnus alumna stagna petierat,
Mart. Cap. 1, p. 11.—Hence Isidorus: et qui alit et alitur, alumnus dici potest, Orig. 10, 1. -
6 Ruminus
Rūmīnus, i, m. [rumis, analog. to 1. Rumina], an epithet of Jupiter, as the nourisher of all things, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 11.
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