imitatrix

ĭmĭtātrix, īcis, f. [imitator],

• she that imitates (rare but class.): boni (voluptas), Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47: gloriae, id. Tusc. 3, 2, 4: avis imitatrix ac parasita, Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 68.

imitātrīx, trīcis, f. (Femin. zu imitator), die Nachahmerin, von Vögeln, Ov. u. Plin.: v. Abstr., imitatrix boni, voluptas, Cic.: naturae im. ars, Auson.: harum (disciplinarum) imitatrices esse coquinariam et unguentariam, Apul.

imitatrix [CL] 1 imitator, follower (f.): a (of another person); b (of example or abstr.). a emula, ~ix GlC E 158; sit in ea [muliere] jugum dilectionis et pacis, ‥ †imitatrisque [? l. imitatrix; but treated as vb. bygl.: ðu sie giliced] sanctarum permaneat feminarum Rit. Durh. 109; venerabilem quoque ejus genetricem, ewangelice Anne religiosam ~icem Gosc. Edith 58.  b in juventute, que vitiorum facilis ~ix est Adel. ED 32; abbatisse ‥ habuerunt ‥ multas et regiminis et religionis ~ices W. Malm. GP IV 183 p. 323; est ‥ equitas quodammodo immitatrix justitie in facienda dispensatione R. Niger Mil. III 15; prima ‥ generatio ex limo; et hec ultima ex ligno. illa ‥, quoniam a Domino nature tantum semel, ideo semper obstupenda processit. istam vero, non minus admirabilem, ~ix natura ministrat Gir. TH I 15 p. 49; cum ‥ sit ‥ ~ix natura vitiorum Ib. III 24 (cf. id. SD 70); de generatione tali que est ~ix scelerum paternorum Holcot Wisd. 147. 2 (as adj.) given to mimicry. ego quidem tunc puer turribuli ebdomadarius cum ceteris quandoque flebam, interdum ridebam, ~ix simia factus aliorum Found. Waltham 28.

ĭmĭtātrīx, (16) īcis, f. (imitator), imitatrice : Cic. Leg. 1, 47 ; Plin. 10, 68.

imitātrīx īcis, f

• imitator, she that imitates: boni (voluptas): gloriae.