I.she that has borne any one, or produced any thing, a mother (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. mater).
I. Lit.: Venus, genetrix patris nostri (Aeneae), Enn. ap. Non. 378, 16 (Ann. v. 53 Vahl.); so of Venus, as the mother of Aeneas, Verg. A. 1, 590; 8, 383; 12, 412; 554; “as the ancestress of the Romans: Aeneadūm genetrix,” Lucr. 1, 1; “and of Cæsar,” Suet. Caes. 61; 78; 84 (cf.: Venere prognatus, of Cæsar, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; cf. also Suet. Caes. 6 and 49); “as the mother of Amor,” Verg. A. 1, 689; of Cybele: “me magna deūm genetrix his detinet oris, (also called Magna Mater),” id. ib. 2, 788; “so of the same,” id. ib. 9, 82; 94; “117: genetrix Priami de gente vetusta Est mihi (shortly after: parens),” id. ib. 9, 284; cf.: “nec ferro ut demens genetricem occidis Orestes (shortly after: occisa parente),” Hor. S. 2, 3, 133: “(ciconiae) genetricum senectam invicem educant,” Plin. 10, 23, 32, § 63; Vulg. Cant. 3, 4 al.—
II. Transf.
A. She that produces, a mother: “(tellus) magna deūm mater materque ferarum, et nostri genetrix corporis,” Lucr. 2, 599: “patria o mea creatrix! patria o mea genetrix!” Cat. 63, 50: “frugum,” i. e. Ceres, Ov. M. 5, 490: “Miletus, Ioniae caput, super octoginta urbium per cuncta maria genetrix,” mother-city, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112: “Aegyptus vitiorum genetrix,” id. 26, 1, 3, § 4: “genetrix virtutum frugalitas,” Just. 20, 4.—
B. Poet. of a mother-in-law, Ov. M. 9, 326.
