noverca

Definitiones

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

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“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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