Meaning of noverca | Babel Free

Definitions

1. stepmother
   declension-1, feminine
2. a person, people, etc. who adopts the role of being a mother, especially to a foreigner.
   broadly, declension-1, feminine

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Examples

“Nȳsiadas nymphās puerum quaerente novercā hanc frondem cūnīs opposuisse ferunt When his stepmother was searching for the boy, the nymphs of Nysa carried this foliage to set against his cradle. (The Nysiads used ivy leaves to hide the cradle of baby Dionysus [Roman Liber or Bacchus] from Juno – ever-hostile to the children her husband Jupiter fathered with others – including this son of Jupiter and Semele.)”

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