| A | B |
|---|
| domus | basic house |
| insulae | apartment buildings; with the cheapest tenants on the uppermost floors (70 ft hieght limit by Augustus & 60 ft by Nero) |
| cenaculum | a single apartment building |
| insularius | slave of the owner who collected rent fees |
| villa | country house |
| villa rustica | farmhouse run for profit (most popular area: Campania) |
| villa urbana | country estate kept up for pleasure |
| cellae familiae | slave quarters at a villa |
| ianua | door/entrance |
| limen | threshold |
| limen superum | lintel |
| postes | door jambs |
| fauces | (throat) entryway into the house |
| vestibulum | courtyard; (where sportula was given to clients) |
| sportula | handout from a patron to his clients (freedmen or former slaves) |
| salutatio | morning greeting ceremony of a patron by his clients |
| atrium | 1st room of the house (where the arca was sometimes kept) |
| arca | strongbox for money or documents (usu. kept in the tablinum) |
| lararium | shrine ttto the Lares (household gods) |
| compluvium | opening in roof of atrium (for sunlight or rain) |
| impluvium | pool under the compluvium where rainwater falls |
| tablinum | study; domain of the dominus |
| triclinium | dining room; named for the 3 couches (lecti) |
| imus | lowest couch; where the host sat |
| medius | middle couch; for the guest of honor |
| summus | highest couch |
| sigma | curved couch used with a round table |
| culina | kitchen |
| latrina/balneum | bathroom |
| dormitorium/cubiculum | bedroom; located on west side of the peristylium |
| cubicula diurna | bedroom for napping |
| cubicula nocturna / dormitoria | bedroom for night-time sleeping |
| peristylium | colonnadde area of pillars in the garden (adopted from the Greeks) |
| hortus | garden |
| piscina | pool or fishpond |
| ostium | entryway into the house (closed off from the atrium by vela(curtains)(aka aulaea) |
| fores | double doors |
| posticum | back door |
| alae | the wings of atrium; where the imagines (wax busts of ancestors) are kept |
| armarium | cabinet or chest that holds the imagines in the alae |
| andron | passageway between the atrium and peristylium |
| exedrae | rooms for entertaining guests or reading |
| bibliotheca | library; (decorated with statues of Minerva or the Muses |
| solarium | flat part of the roof laid out like a garden to bask in the sun |
| sacrarium | private chapel |
| oeci | saloons, sometimes used as a banquet hall |
| tetrastylon | 4 pillarssupporting an intersection of beams |
| displuvium/displuviatum | where the roof slopes away from the compluvium and carries water off by gutters |
| testudinatum | had no compluvium |
| Corinthium | 4+ pillars supporting the intersection of beams |
| Tuscanicum | formed by 2 pairs of beams crossing each other perpendicularly, no columns |
| fistulae | lead pipes that carried water into houses |
| parietes | walls |
| lateres cocti | burnt bricks |
| tegulae | roofing tiles |
| imbrices | tiles used to make rain gutters |
| serae | bars used to secure the outer door of a house |
| pessuli | slide-bolts used to secure the outer door of a house |
| foriculae | window shutters |
| fenestrae | windows |
| foculi | charcoal stoves used to heat rooms |
| lacus/lacunae | colored panels into which the cieling was divided |
| abaci | Vitruvius' term for painted panels into which the ceiling/walls were divided |
| maenianum | balcony |
| pulvinus | pillow |
| lodix | blanket |
| viridia | exotic plants |
| xystus | geometrical hedge-clipped flowerbeds |
| topiarius | person in charge of clipping hedges |
| elm/ulmus | used to train grapevines to trees (for easy trimming) |
| arbustum | rows of trees for training vines (orchard) |
| sella | stool for one person |
| sella curulis | folding chair w/ ivory legs (originated from Etruria); used by high magistrates & emperors |
| solium | straight high-backed chair w/ solid arms; used by a patronus during the salutatio |
| subsellium | bench; used by senators in the curia, jurors at court, and boys at school |
| cathedra | curved chair w/o arms; used by women and teachers of rhetoric |
| "Ex cathedra" | "With authority" |
| cathedra supina | chair w/ a back fixed at an easy angle |
| stibadium | couch nexted to a sigma; had room for 7-8 people |
| mensa | basic table |
| monopodium | table w/ only 1 support; (usu. used to hold a lamp or toilet articles) |
| abacus | table w/ regular top and raised rim; (usu. held dishes) |
| mensa delphica | table w/ 3 legs |
