noun
pistrix
Meaning
- a woman who pounds corn
pistrix, īcis, f. pistor,
I. a woman who pounds corn; hence, transf., a female baker, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 138 Müll., and ap. Fest. s. v. mamphula, p. 142 Müll.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pīstrīx īcis, f
, πίστρις or πρίστις, a seamonster, whale, shark, saw-fish: immani corpore, V.—The constellation of the Whale, C. poët.