compotrix

From con- + pōtrīx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈpoː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈpɔː.triks]

compōtrīx f (genitive compōtrīcis, masculine compōtor); third declension

1. female equivalent of compōtor (“drinking companion”)
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 228–232:

     MȲSIS: Audīvī, Archylis! Jamdūdum: Lesbiam addūcī jubēs. / Sānē pol illa tēmulentast mulier et temerāria / nec satis digna cui committās prīmō partū mulierem. / Tamen eam addūcam? Importūnitātem spectāte aniculae — / quia compōtrīx ejus est!

     MYSIS: I heard you, Archylis! For a long time now: you’re ordering Lesbia [the midwife] to be brought. (To the audience) Truly, by god, that woman [Lesbia] is drunk and reckless, and not worthy enough for you to entrust a woman in her first childbirth. Shall I bring her anyway? Look at the impropriety of the old woman — just because she’s a drinking companion of [Archylis]!
     (tēmulentast = temulenta + est)

Third-declension noun.

• “compotrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compotrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers