meretrix

meretrix englanniksi

1. A prostitute in Rome.

2. (quote-book)|year_published=1922|author=Petronius|passage=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."

3. (RQ:Wolfe New Sun)

4. (quote-book) 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.

5. a female prostitute or courtesan