I.a female lover, in an honorable and a dishonorable sense, a mistress, sweetheart (syn.: “amans, amica): Sappho amatrix,” Mart. 7, 69, 9: “dicacula,” Plaut. As. 3, 1, 8; id. Poen. 5, 5, 25.—Used as adj.: “amatrices aquae,” amorous, Mart. 7, 15; 10, 4.
ămātrĭx , īcis, f. id.,