詞源

借自拉丁語 。

名詞

(複數)

1. 古羅馬的妓女
   • a. 100 公元, , 譯者 , ‎, 出版於 1922:

     Nomus Marcellus has pointed out the difference between this class of prostitutes and the prostibula. "This is the difference between a meretrix (harlot) and a prostibula (common strumpet): a meretrix is of a more honorable station and calling; for meretrices are so named a merendo (from earning wages) because they plied their calling only by night; prostibulu because they stand before the stabulum (stall) for gain both by day and night."

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   • 2013, Ariadne Staples, 源自Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Of the two ritually important female categories, matrona and meretrix, it was the matrona that was held at a strict ritual distance. […] The domain of the meretrix was not held at a ritual distance. The boundary between male and female was not quite so stark when the female belonged to the category of prostitute.

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其他形式

• , , , (晚期拉丁語, 流行, 語音異, 輔音叢簡化, 嚴禁)

詞源

源自 (“賺錢，謀生”) +‎ (“施事名詞後綴”)，字面意思為“賺錢者”。

發音

• (古典拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈme.re.triːks/, [ˈmɛrɛt̪riːks̠]
• (教會拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈme.re.triks/, [ˈmɛːret̪riks]

名詞

 f (属格，阳性); 第三类变格

1. 妓女

參考資料

• “meretrīx” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• J. N. Adams (1983), “Words for 'prostitute' in Latin”, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie‎, 卷126, 期3/4, ISSN 0035-449X, 页321–358

延伸閱讀

• meretrix in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• “meretrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meretrix在Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français (拉丁語-法語詳解詞典), Hachette中的內容
• “meretrix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers