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conservatrix

conservātrix, īcis, f. [conservator],
  • she who preserves, defends (post-class.): conservatrices et nutrices ignis, Arn. 4, p. 151.— As an epithet of Juno, Inscr. Grut. 25, 2 al.; cf. conservator; and of industrious housewives, Inscr. Orell. 4930 al.: bonorum principum clementia conservatrix thensaurorum, Treb. Poll. XXX. Tyr. 30, 16 (but the best reading, Cic. Fin. 5, 9, 26, is servatricem; cf. Madv. N. cr.).

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