Is there a Latin word for shepherdess, perhaps from a medieval or renaissance source? I’m in pastoral mode and want to talk about a shepherd who loves a shepherdess. I’m guessing that women didn’t act as shepherds in classical times because the only words I can find are the masculine pastor and upilio. However, by the renaissance, surely they came up with a solution (pastora? upilia?). I suppose I could refer to her as pastor muliebris, but that’s awful clunky, and might, I suspect, be construed as an "effeminate shepherd."