Roman Food, Meals, and Agriculture

Question 1

What are words for pork?

Answer 1

Sus, porcus, verres, aper, scrofa, maialis, nefrens

Question 2

What was the flesh furnished for banquets that consisted of the heart, liver, and lungs?

Answer 2

Exta

Question 3

What was a great delicacy in Ancient Rome known as dormouse?

Answer 3

Glis or Nitedula

Question 4

What was seafood (fish)?

Answer 4

Piscis

Question 5

What was a meal of salted fish with eggs and cheese?

Answer 5

Tyrotarichus

Question 6

What was the word for mullet fish?

Answer 6

Mullus

Question 7

What was the word for turbot?

Answer 7

Rhombus

Question 8

What was the word for oysters?

Answer 8

Ostreae

Question 9

What was the word for a surgeon fish?

Answer 9

Acipenser

Question 10

What was the word for cod?

Answer 10

Asellus

Question 11

What was the word for pike?

Answer 11

Lupus

Question 12

What was the word for tunny-fish?

Answer 12

Thunnus

Question 13

What was the word for fish sause?

Answer 13

Garum or Liquamen

Question 14

What was the fish sause made from tunny-fish?

Answer 14

Muria

Question 15

What were the left overs from making fish sauce that was given to slaves?

Answer 15

Allex

Question 16

What was the term for the mill?

Answer 16

Mola

Question 17

What was the word for lower millstone?

Answer 17

Meta

Question 18

What was the term for the upper millstone?

Answer 18

Catillus

Question 19

What was the press used to make oil?

Answer 19

Torcular or Preculum

Question 20

What was the dark bitter liquid made up of the impurities removed from the pressing of the olive used as fertilizer?

Answer 20

Amurca

Question 21

What is the first press of olive oil used for?

Answer 21

Cosmetics

Question 22

What is the second press of olive oil used for?

Answer 22

Cooking

Question 23

What is the third press of olive oil used for?

Answer 23

Fuel for lamps

Question 24

What was the term for olive oil?

Answer 24

Oleum

Question 25

What was the term for the preparation of the olive?

Answer 25

Epityrum

Question 26

What was the term for bread?

Answer 26

Panes

Question 27

What was the bread made of pure wheat flour?

Answer 27

Panis siligneus

Question 28

What was the bread made of course flour and/or bran?

Answer 28

Panis plebeius

Question 29

What was army bread?

Answer 29

Panis castrensis

Question 30

What was dark bread?

Answer 30

Panis sordidus

Question 31

What was country bread?

Answer 31

Panis rusticus

Question 32

What was the term for pot-heards?

Answer 32

Herbae pulmentariae

Question 33

What was the term for cabbage?

Answer 33

Brassica

Question 34

What was the term for lettuce?

Answer 34

Lactuca

Question 35

What was the term for leek?

Answer 35

Porrum

Question 36

What was the term for barley?

Answer 36

Hordeum

Question 37

What was the term for caepa?

Answer 37

Onion

Question 38

What was the term for carrot?

Answer 38

Pastinaca

Question 39

What was the term for turnip?

Answer 39

Radix / rapa / rapum

Question 40

What was the term for asparagus / artichoke?

Answer 40

Cardus

Question 41

What was the term for beans?

Answer 41

Fabae

Question 42

What was the term for pea?

Answer 42

pisum

Question 43

What was the term for chickpea?

Answer 43

Cicer

Question 44

What was the term for cucumber?

Answer 44

Cucumis

Question 45

What was the term for melon?

Answer 45

Melo

Question 46

What was the term for birds?

Answer 46

Aves

Question 47

What was the term for white grouse?

Answer 47

Lagopus

Question 48

What was the term for snipe?

Answer 48

Scolopax

Question 49

What was the term for woodcock?

Answer 49

Attagen Ionicus

Question 50

What was the term for thrush?

Answer 50

Turdus

Question 51

What was the term for partridge?

Answer 51

Perdix

Question 52

What was the term for ortolan?

Answer 52

Miliaria

Question 53

What was the term for pheasant?

Answer 53

Phasianus

Question 54

What was the term for crane?

Answer 54

Grus / gruis

Question 55

What was the term for peacock?

Answer 55

Pavo

Question 56

What was the term for porridge?

Answer 56

puls

Question 57

What was the term for a porridge eater?

Answer 57

Pultiphagonidae

Question 58

What was the term for drinks?

Answer 58

potus

Question 59

What was the term for water?

Answer 59

Aqua

Question 60

What was the term for grape juice?

Answer 60

Mustum

Question 61

What was the term for the vat-like jar used to ferment mustum into wine?

Answer 61

Dolium

Question 62

What was the term for a cell used to ferment wine where jars were left uncovered for nine days?

Answer 62

Vanaria cella

Question 63

What was the term for wine?

Answer 63

Vinum

Question 64

What was the term for vinegar?

Answer 64

Acetum

Question 65

What was the term for tasteless wine/vinegar?

Answer 65

Vappa

Question 66

What was the term for honeyed wine (Four parts wine, one part honey)?

Answer 66

Mulsum

Question 67

What was the term for honeyed water (two parts honey, two parts water)?

Answer 67

Mulsa

Question 68

What was the term for grape jelly?

Answer 68

Sapa / defrutum / defritum

Question 69

What was the term for water down vinegar?

Answer 69

Posca

Question 70

What was the term for breakfast?

Answer 70

Ientaculum

Question 71

What was the term for midday siesta?

Answer 71

Meridiatio

Question 72

What was the term for lunch?

Answer 72

Prandium

Question 73

What was the term for dinner?

Answer 73

Cena

Question 74

What was the term for an appetizer?

Answer 74

Gustatio / promulsis / gustus / antecena

Question 75

What was the term for the main course?

Answer 75

Fercula

Question 76

What was the term for dessert?

Answer 76

Secunda mensa

Question 77

What was the term for supper?

Answer 77

Merenda / vesperna

Question 78

What was the term for a banquet or drinking party?

Answer 78

Convivium

Question 79

What was the term for a drinking party?

Answer 79

Comissatio / compotatio

Question 80

What was the Greek term for "a drink together"?

Answer 80

Symposium

Question 81

What was the term for an early and long banquet?

Answer 81

Covivium tempestivum

Question 82

What was the term for an unwelcomed guest?

Answer 82

Umbrae

Question 83

What was the term for rice?

Answer 83

Oryza

Question 84

What was the term for pasta?

Answer 84

Collyra

Question 85

What was the term for tomato?

Answer 85

Tomata

Question 86

What was the term for sugar?

Answer 86

Saccharum

Question 87

What was the term for oranges?

Answer 87

Arancium

Question 88

What was the term for bananas?

Answer 88

Banana / ariera

Question 89

What was the term for straw berries?

Answer 89

Fraga

Question 90

What was the term for raspbarrys?

Answer 90

Batus

Question 91

What was the term for chocolate?

Answer 91

Socolata

Question 92

What was the term for coffee?

Answer 92

Caffeum / cafea

Question 93

What was the term for tea?

Answer 93

Thea

Question 94

What food did the Romans not have?

Answer 94

Rice, pasta, tomato, potato, sugar, corn, orange, banana, strawberries, raspberry, chocolate, coffee, tea, and distilled spirits?

Question 95

What was the term for a tenant farmer?

Answer 95

Colonus

Question 96

What was the term for alfalfa?

Answer 96

Medica

Question 97

What was the term for a pleasure estate?

Answer 97

Villa urbana

Question 98

What was the term for the framword for growing vines?

Answer 98

Pergula

Question 99

What was the term for flields that were to be ploughed twice?

Answer 99

Aratrum

Question 100

Who tells use that fields ought to be ploughed 9 times?

Answer 100

Pliny the Younger

Question 101

What was the term for a personal garden?

Answer 101

Xystus

Question 102

What was the term for a garden for driving or riding?

Answer 102

Hippodromus

Question 103

What was the term for gardens for walking or being carried in a lectica?

Answer 103

Gestationes