Latin phrases Flashcards
Lares
Household god, protector of family and household
Penates
Household god, protector of pantry, storehouse
Lararium
Shrine found in atrium or peristyle used to place offerings to Lares and Genius
Genius
Man in toga or snake, empowers ‘manhood’ to father his children
Forum
public open space for commercial, religious and political purposes
Thermae
public baths
Tepidarium
Warm bath in thermae
Caldarium
hot bath in thermae
cella
most central part of a temple
compluvium
central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light
compluvium
central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light
cubiculum
small bedrooms centred around the atrium
curia
senate house
decumanus
east-west road
cardo
north-south
Domus
family house, inward facing
epitaph
inscription on tombstone
equites
plebeian nobles, social class, rich enough to own a horse
forica
public toilets
frigidarium
cold bath
impluvium
found under compluvium, collected rainwater into a cistern under house
insulae
housing for the lower class, ‘apartment’ like buildings
Liberti
freedman (free slave)
manumission
legal freedom from slavery
necropolis
cemetery, found only outside Rome walls
Palaestra
gymnasium/courtyard for exercise, sometimes in thermae
Patrician
rich aristocracy
Plebeian
normal, lower class people
Pontifex
highest priest
salutatio
morning greetings to patron
Tabernae
shops in front of house
tablinium
office/study
tabularium
official records office
thermopolia
fast food restaurant
potestas and manus
absolute power over someone
dignitas
dignity
auctoritas
authority
gens
family name/bloodline/ lineage
pomperium
the sacred boundary around a city, no imperium allowed inside
strigil
a curved tool used to scrape oil off the body
sudatorium
sweating room (like sauna)
