Roman Food, Meals, and Agriculture Flashcards
What are words for pork?
Sus, porcus, verres, aper, scrofa, maialis, nefrens
What was the flesh furnished for banquets that consisted of the heart, liver, and lungs?
Exta
What was a great delicacy in Ancient Rome known as dormouse?
Glis or Nitedula
What was seafood (fish)?
Piscis
What was a meal of salted fish with eggs and cheese?
Tyrotarichus
What was the word for mullet fish?
Mullus
What was the word for turbot?
Rhombus
What was the word for oysters?
Ostreae
What was the word for a surgeon fish?
Acipenser
What was the word for cod?
Asellus
What was the word for pike?
Lupus
What was the word for tunny-fish?
Thunnus
What was the word for fish sause?
Garum or Liquamen
What was the fish sause made from tunny-fish?
Muria
What were the left overs from making fish sauce that was given to slaves?
Allex
What was the term for the mill?
Mola
What was the word for lower millstone?
Meta
What was the term for the upper millstone?
Catillus
What was the press used to make oil?
Torcular or Preculum
What was the dark bitter liquid made up of the impurities removed from the pressing of the olive used as fertilizer?
Amurca
What is the first press of olive oil used for?
Cosmetics
What is the second press of olive oil used for?
Cooking
What is the third press of olive oil used for?
Fuel for lamps
What was the term for olive oil?
Oleum
What was the term for the preparation of the olive?
Epityrum
What was the term for bread?
Panes
What was the bread made of pure wheat flour?
Panis siligneus
What was the bread made of course flour and/or bran?
Panis plebeius
What was army bread?
Panis castrensis
What was dark bread?
Panis sordidus
What was country bread?
Panis rusticus
What was the term for pot-heards?
Herbae pulmentariae
What was the term for cabbage?
Brassica
What was the term for lettuce?
Lactuca
What was the term for leek?
Porrum
What was the term for barley?
Hordeum
What was the term for caepa?
Onion
What was the term for carrot?
Pastinaca
What was the term for turnip?
Radix / rapa / rapum
What was the term for asparagus / artichoke?
Cardus
What was the term for beans?
Fabae
What was the term for pea?
pisum
What was the term for chickpea?
Cicer
What was the term for cucumber?
Cucumis
What was the term for melon?
Melo
What was the term for birds?
Aves
What was the term for white grouse?
Lagopus
What was the term for snipe?
Scolopax
What was the term for woodcock?
Attagen Ionicus
What was the term for thrush?
Turdus
What was the term for partridge?
Perdix
What was the term for ortolan?
Miliaria
What was the term for pheasant?
Phasianus
What was the term for crane?
Grus / gruis
What was the term for peacock?
Pavo
What was the term for porridge?
puls
What was the term for a porridge eater?
Pultiphagonidae
What was the term for drinks?
potus
What was the term for water?
Aqua
What was the term for grape juice?
Mustum
What was the term for the vat-like jar used to ferment mustum into wine?
Dolium
What was the term for a cell used to ferment wine where jars were left uncovered for nine days?
Vanaria cella
What was the term for wine?
Vinum
What was the term for vinegar?
Acetum
What was the term for tasteless wine/vinegar?
Vappa
What was the term for honeyed wine (Four parts wine, one part honey)?
Mulsum
What was the term for honeyed water (two parts honey, two parts water)?
Mulsa
What was the term for grape jelly?
Sapa / defrutum / defritum
What was the term for water down vinegar?
Posca
What was the term for breakfast?
Ientaculum
What was the term for midday siesta?
Meridiatio
What was the term for lunch?
Prandium
What was the term for dinner?
Cena
What was the term for an appetizer?
Gustatio / promulsis / gustus / antecena
What was the term for the main course?
Fercula
What was the term for dessert?
Secunda mensa
What was the term for supper?
Merenda / vesperna
What was the term for a banquet or drinking party?
Convivium
What was the term for a drinking party?
Comissatio / compotatio
What was the Greek term for “a drink together”?
Symposium
What was the term for an early and long banquet?
Covivium tempestivum
What was the term for an unwelcomed guest?
Umbrae
What was the term for rice?
Oryza
What was the term for pasta?
Collyra
What was the term for tomato?
Tomata
What was the term for sugar?
Saccharum
What was the term for oranges?
Arancium
What was the term for bananas?
Banana / ariera
What was the term for straw berries?
Fraga
What was the term for raspbarrys?
Batus
What was the term for chocolate?
Socolata
What was the term for coffee?
Caffeum / cafea
What was the term for tea?
Thea
What food did the Romans not have?
Rice, pasta, tomato, potato, sugar, corn, orange, banana, strawberries, raspberry, chocolate, coffee, tea, and distilled spirits?
What was the term for a tenant farmer?
Colonus
What was the term for alfalfa?
Medica
What was the term for a pleasure estate?
Villa urbana
What was the term for the framword for growing vines?
Pergula
What was the term for flields that were to be ploughed twice?
Aratrum
Who tells use that fields ought to be ploughed 9 times?
Pliny the Younger
What was the term for a personal garden?
Xystus
What was the term for a garden for driving or riding?
Hippodromus
What was the term for gardens for walking or being carried in a lectica?
Gestationes
