Latin - National Test Vocab

Calidarium

Hot bath

Frigidarium

Cold Bath

Tempidarium

Warm bath

Stringiles

Scrapers that scraped oil from the body

Unguentum

The oil

Apodyterium

Changing room/Locker room

Palaestra

Gym

Pontifex maximus

High priest

Vestals

Priestesses of Vesta

Lars and Penates

Household gods

Haruspex augures

People who read signs

Omina

omens

Fasces and lictors

A bundle of sticks/rods wrapped around an axe that symbolixed the power of a magistrate to inflict punishment. These are carried by ___, roman civil servants and bodyguards of magistrates

Pronuba

Matron of honor

Confarratio

Type of marriage

Flameum

Bridal veil

Sex crines

hairstyle

Lupercalia

Roman festival off purification/fertility

Matronalia

Roman festival celebrating the goddess of childbirth

Saturnalia

Roman festival celebrating the god, Cronus

Conclamatio

Calling out of the deceased name

Rogus

Funeral pyre

Imagines

Ancestral masks

Murmillo, retiarius, secutor, bestiarius, venator

Types of gladiators

Meta

Turning point

Spina

Elaborate columns that racers tried to make competitors crash into

Quadriga

Four horse chariot

Bigae

Two horse chariot

Mappa

A cloth dropped to signal a race

Carceres

Gates that chariots line up at (also a word for prison)

Atrium

Reception area

Culina

Kitchen

Cubiculum

Room/Bedroom

Triclinium

Dining room

Tablinium

A study

Hortus

Garden

Peristylum

Outdoor covered walkway

Ientaculum

Breakfast

Prandium

Lunch

Cena

Dinner

Secuna mensa

Dessert

Stola

Dress

Palla

A shawl/scarf

Tunica

One piece clothing worn by men or women

Toga

Formal clothing worn by senators

Toga virilis

Plain white toga worn by adult male citizens

Toga praetexta

White toga with a purple stripe worn by senators, but also noble adolescent boys

Toga candida

An extra shiny white toga worn by political candidates

Toga pulla

Dark dyed toga worn for funerals and mourning

Toga picta

Purple toga with gold stripe worn by victorious generals and emperors

Roads

Viae