The Roman Family

Question 1

alieno iuri subiectus

Answer 1

dependent

Question 2

tutor

Answer 2

(must be of same gens) guardian of underage son/unmarried daughter if pater familias

Question 3

gens

Answer 3

group of people with the same nomen

Question 4

gentiles

Answer 4

members of gens

Question 5

what happened to someone’s stuff if they died without children?

Answer 5

Their gens would distribute the property across the gentiles

Question 6

sacra gentilicia

Answer 6

religious services of the gens

Question 7

stirps

Answer 7

groups of people with the same cogonomen

Question 8

agnatio

Answer 8

relation through males

Question 9

agnati

Answer 9

person, their wife, children & their spouses - but not adopted sons

Question 10

cognatio

Answer 10

Blood relation - no legal right

Question 11

cara cognatio

Answer 11

22nd of February

Question 12

pater, patris, m.

Answer 12

father

Question 13

mater, matris, f.

Answer 13

mother

Question 14

frater, fratris, m.

Answer 14

brother

Question 15

soror, sororis, f.

Answer 15

sister

Question 16

avus, avi, m.

Answer 16

grandfather

Question 17

avia, aviae, f.

Answer 17

grandma

Question 18

patruus, patrui, m.

Answer 18

uncle on father’s side

Question 19

amita, amitae, f.

Answer 19

aunt on father’s side

Question 20

avunculus, avunculi, m.

Answer 20

uncle on mother’s side

Question 21

matertera, materterae, f.

Answer 21

aunt on mother’s side

Question 22

nepos, nepotis m/f

Answer 22

grandson/granddaughter, neice/nephew

Question 23

patrulis, patrulis, m

Answer 23

Cousin on father’s side

Question 24

propior sobino/sobrina

Answer 24

second cousin

Question 25

sobrinus(a), sobrini(ae)

Answer 25

third cousin

Question 26

ius osculi

Answer 26

right to kiss - people with the sixth degree of familial relation have this

Question 27

adfines

Answer 27

relatives through marriage only

Question 28

adfinitas

Answer 28

relation through marriage

Question 29

gener, generi, m

Answer 29

son-in-law

Question 30

nurus, nurus, f

Answer 30

daughter-in-law

Question 31

socer, soceri, m

Answer 31

father-in-law

Question 32

socrus, socrus, f

Answer 32

mother-in-law

Question 33

provignus, provigni, m

Answer 33

stepson

Question 34

provigna, provignae, f

Answer 34

stepdaughter

Question 35

vitricus, vitrici, m

Answer 35

stepfather

Question 36

noverca, novercae, f

Answer 36

stepmother

Question 37

ianitrices

Answer 37

women who married brothers

Question 38

sacra familiaria

Answer 38

religious services of the family

Question 39

adoptio

Answer 39

adoption of a filius familias or son

Question 40

adrogatio

Answer 40

adoption of a paterfamilias

Question 41

Who sanctioned the extinction of one family to prevent that of another?

Answer 41

pontifices and comitia centuriata

Question 42

limitations to the patria potestas

Answer 42

all sons and first born daughters must be reared
no killing children until after they are 3 (unless grievously deformed)
no selling a married son as a slave

Question 43

council of relatives and friends who are called when paterfamilias is contemplating infliction of severe punishment

Answer 43

iudicium domesticum

Question 44

property assigned to children by paterfamilias

Answer 44

peculia

Question 45

patrimonium profundere

Answer 45

to prove untrue to a pater familias’ trust

Question 46

manus

Answer 46

power of a man over his wife

Question 47

dominica potestas

Answer 47

power of pater familias over slaves and inanimate objects

Question 48

wives were considered in ___ to their husbands, claiming a share of the daughters

Answer 48

loco filiae

Question 49

divorce without good cause =

Answer 49

loss of property

Question 50

cognatio not transferring legal rights did not apply to ___

Answer 50

wives