Tu Amo - Latin Translations

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

AMPHORA – jar. Made from clay with a handle and a pointed end, store wine, and oils, nuts?

ATRIUM – the main room, the first room entered after going through the fauces.

CUBICULUM – the bedroom, joined onto the atrium

CULINA – kitchen

DOMINA – “master” addressed to a woman, DOMINUS is the male equivalent

DOMUS – town house, different to a villa

“DO UT DE” – “I give so you give”

FAMILIA – the members of a household

FRESCO – wall painting, often expensive and hard to create, available in 4 styles

GEMINI – twins GEMINUS/GEMINA is the singular equivalent

LARARIUM – shrine to the Lares

LARES – household gods

PAIDAGOGUS – escort, usually takes children to school. Often learned.

PATER – father

PERISTYLIUM – the garden surrounded by columns in a typical Roman house.

RHETOR – the last stage in the Roman education system, up to age 18, teaches how to speak properly

SALUTATIO – the morning greeting where the clients and patrons meet. Sometimes sportula is given

SALVIUS EST ASINUS, GAIUM CONSILIO ELEGERIT – "Salvius is a donkey, choose Gaius for council"

SERVOS – slave

TRICLINIUM – dining room, at the back of the house with a vista. Triclinium literally means “three couches”

VISTA – the view running down the length of the house