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Roman Food, Meals, and Agriculture Flashcards

1
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What are words for pork?

A

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

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2
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What was the flesh furnished for banquets that consisted of the heart, liver, and lungs?

A

Exta

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3
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What was a great delicacy in Ancient Rome known as dormouse?

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Glis or Nitedula

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4
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What was seafood (fish)?

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Piscis

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5
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What was a meal of salted fish with eggs and cheese?

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Tyrotarichus

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6
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What was the word for mullet fish?

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Mullus

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7
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What was the word for turbot?

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Rhombus

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8
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What was the word for oysters?

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Ostreae

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9
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What was the word for a surgeon fish?

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Acipenser

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10
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What was the word for cod?

A

Asellus

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11
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What was the word for pike?

A

Lupus

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12
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What was the word for tunny-fish?

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Thunnus

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13
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What was the word for fish sause?

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Garum or Liquamen

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14
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What was the fish sause made from tunny-fish?

A

Muria

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15
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What were the left overs from making fish sauce that was given to slaves?

A

Allex

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16
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What was the term for the mill?

A

Mola

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17
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What was the word for lower millstone?

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Meta

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18
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What was the term for the upper millstone?

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Catillus

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19
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What was the press used to make oil?

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Torcular or Preculum

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20
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What was the dark bitter liquid made up of the impurities removed from the pressing of the olive used as fertilizer?

A

Amurca

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21
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What is the first press of olive oil used for?

A

Cosmetics

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22
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What is the second press of olive oil used for?

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Cooking

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23
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What is the third press of olive oil used for?

A

Fuel for lamps

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24
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What was the term for olive oil?

A

Oleum

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25
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What was the term for the preparation of the olive?

A

Epityrum

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26
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What was the term for bread?

A

Panes

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27
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What was the bread made of pure wheat flour?

A

Panis siligneus

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28
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What was the bread made of course flour and/or bran?

A

Panis plebeius

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29
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What was army bread?

A

Panis castrensis

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30
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What was dark bread?

A

Panis sordidus

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31
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What was country bread?

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Panis rusticus

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32
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What was the term for pot-heards?

A

Herbae pulmentariae

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33
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What was the term for cabbage?

A

Brassica

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34
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What was the term for lettuce?

A

Lactuca

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35
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What was the term for leek?

A

Porrum

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36
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What was the term for barley?

A

Hordeum

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37
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What was the term for caepa?

A

Onion

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38
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What was the term for carrot?

A

Pastinaca

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39
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What was the term for turnip?

A

Radix / rapa / rapum

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40
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What was the term for asparagus / artichoke?

A

Cardus

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41
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What was the term for beans?

A

Fabae

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42
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What was the term for pea?

A

pisum

43
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What was the term for chickpea?

A

Cicer

44
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What was the term for cucumber?

A

Cucumis

45
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What was the term for melon?

A

Melo

46
Q

What was the term for birds?

A

Aves

47
Q

What was the term for white grouse?

A

Lagopus

48
Q

What was the term for snipe?

A

Scolopax

49
Q

What was the term for woodcock?

A

Attagen Ionicus

50
Q

What was the term for thrush?

A

Turdus

51
Q

What was the term for partridge?

A

Perdix

52
Q

What was the term for ortolan?

A

Miliaria

53
Q

What was the term for pheasant?

A

Phasianus

54
Q

What was the term for crane?

A

Grus / gruis

55
Q

What was the term for peacock?

A

Pavo

56
Q

What was the term for porridge?

A

puls

57
Q

What was the term for a porridge eater?

A

Pultiphagonidae

58
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What was the term for drinks?

A

potus

59
Q

What was the term for water?

A

Aqua

60
Q

What was the term for grape juice?

A

Mustum

61
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What was the term for the vat-like jar used to ferment mustum into wine?

A

Dolium

62
Q

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

A

Vanaria cella

63
Q

What was the term for wine?

A

Vinum

64
Q

What was the term for vinegar?

A

Acetum

65
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What was the term for tasteless wine/vinegar?

A

Vappa

66
Q

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

A

Mulsum

67
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What was the term for honeyed water (two parts honey, two parts water)?

A

Mulsa

68
Q

What was the term for grape jelly?

A

Sapa / defrutum / defritum

69
Q

What was the term for water down vinegar?

A

Posca

70
Q

What was the term for breakfast?

A

Ientaculum

71
Q

What was the term for midday siesta?

A

Meridiatio

72
Q

What was the term for lunch?

A

Prandium

73
Q

What was the term for dinner?

A

Cena

74
Q

What was the term for an appetizer?

A

Gustatio / promulsis / gustus / antecena

75
Q

What was the term for the main course?

A

Fercula

76
Q

What was the term for dessert?

A

Secunda mensa

77
Q

What was the term for supper?

A

Merenda / vesperna

78
Q

What was the term for a banquet or drinking party?

A

Convivium

79
Q

What was the term for a drinking party?

A

Comissatio / compotatio

80
Q

What was the Greek term for “a drink together”?

A

Symposium

81
Q

What was the term for an early and long banquet?

A

Covivium tempestivum

82
Q

What was the term for an unwelcomed guest?

A

Umbrae

83
Q

What was the term for rice?

A

Oryza

84
Q

What was the term for pasta?

A

Collyra

85
Q

What was the term for tomato?

A

Tomata

86
Q

What was the term for sugar?

A

Saccharum

87
Q

What was the term for oranges?

A

Arancium

88
Q

What was the term for bananas?

A

Banana / ariera

89
Q

What was the term for straw berries?

A

Fraga

90
Q

What was the term for raspbarrys?

A

Batus

91
Q

What was the term for chocolate?

A

Socolata

92
Q

What was the term for coffee?

A

Caffeum / cafea

93
Q

What was the term for tea?

A

Thea

94
Q

What food did the Romans not have?

A

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

95
Q

What was the term for a tenant farmer?

A

Colonus

96
Q

What was the term for alfalfa?

A

Medica

97
Q

What was the term for a pleasure estate?

A

Villa urbana

98
Q

What was the term for the framword for growing vines?

A

Pergula

99
Q

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

A

Aratrum

100
Q

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

A

Pliny the Younger

101
Q

What was the term for a personal garden?

A

Xystus

102
Q

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

A

Hippodromus

103
Q

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

A

Gestationes

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