Latin phrases

Question 1

Lares

Answer 1

Household god, protector of family and household

Question 2

Penates

Answer 2

Household god, protector of pantry, storehouse

Question 3

Lararium

Answer 3

Shrine found in atrium or peristyle used to place offerings to Lares and Genius

Question 4

Genius

Answer 4

Man in toga or snake, empowers ‘manhood’ to father his children

Question 5

Forum

Answer 5

public open space for commercial, religious and political purposes

Question 6

Thermae

Answer 6

public baths

Question 7

Tepidarium

Answer 7

Warm bath in thermae

Question 8

Caldarium

Answer 8

hot bath in thermae

Question 9

cella

Answer 9

most central part of a temple

Question 10

compluvium

Answer 10

central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light

Question 11

compluvium

Answer 11

central ‘window’ like opening in the roof, providing light

Question 12

cubiculum

Answer 12

small bedrooms centred around the atrium

Question 13

curia

Answer 13

senate house

Question 14

decumanus

Answer 14

east-west road

Question 15

cardo

Answer 15

north-south

Question 16

Domus

Answer 16

family house, inward facing

Question 17

epitaph

Answer 17

inscription on tombstone

Question 18

equites

Answer 18

plebeian nobles, social class, rich enough to own a horse

Question 19

forica

Answer 19

public toilets

Question 20

frigidarium

Answer 20

cold bath

Question 21

impluvium

Answer 21

found under compluvium, collected rainwater into a cistern under house

Question 22

insulae

Answer 22

housing for the lower class, ‘apartment’ like buildings

Question 23

Liberti

Answer 23

freedman (free slave)

Question 24

manumission

Answer 24

legal freedom from slavery

Question 25

necropolis

Answer 25

cemetery, found only outside Rome walls

Question 26

Palaestra

Answer 26

gymnasium/courtyard for exercise, sometimes in thermae

Question 27

Patrician

Answer 27

rich aristocracy

Question 28

Plebeian

Answer 28

normal, lower class people

Question 29

Pontifex

Answer 29

highest priest

Question 30

salutatio

Answer 30

morning greetings to patron

Question 31

Tabernae

Answer 31

shops in front of house

Question 32

tablinium

Answer 32

office/study

Question 33

tabularium

Answer 33

official records office

Question 34

thermopolia

Answer 34

fast food restaurant

Question 35

potestas and manus

Answer 35

absolute power over someone

Question 36

dignitas

Answer 36

dignity

Question 37

auctoritas

Answer 37

authority

Question 38

gens

Answer 38

family name/bloodline/ lineage

Question 39

pomperium

Answer 39

the sacred boundary around a city, no imperium allowed inside

Question 40

strigil

Answer 40

a curved tool used to scrape oil off the body

Question 41

sudatorium

Answer 41

sweating room (like sauna)