conservātrix

I. 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. Trig. Syr. 30, 16 (but the best reading, Cic. Fin. 5, 9, 26, is servatricem; cf. Madv. N. cr.).