| A | B |
| Hadrian | banned men & women bathing together |
| Agrippa | built 1st public bath |
| Largest Baths | Diocletian's |
| Fanciest Baths | Caracalla's |
| thermae | public baths |
| balnea | private baths |
| fornax | furnace |
| apodyterium | changing room; (farthest away from fornax) |
| tepidarium | warm room |
| frigidarium | cold room |
| laconicum/sudatorium | sauna |
| unctorium | oil massage room |
| palaestra | exercise area; (located near the local baths) |
| hypocaust | heating system of baths |
| suspensura | raised floor; beneath which hot air pasted |
| strigiles | scrapers; for scaping oil or sweat |
| alveus | hot water tank; (located in the caldarium) |
| caldarium | hot room; (adjecent to fornax) |
| testudo | metal device; used to evenly distribute hot water in the alveus |
| labrum/solium | cold water basin in the caldarium |
| destrictarium | room (adjecent to palaestra) in which sweat & dirt were scraped off |
| ostiarius | doorkeeper to the baths who collects the fee |
| balneaticum | the entrance fee to the baths (usu. 1 quadrans) |
| conductor | baths manager |
| capsarius | slave that carried his master's towels, oils, and strigiles |
| popina | snack bar |