“home” in Latin

domus (the house; hence the family, etc., but not in the full sense of our word “home.” Also home= country): patria (native land). (The words are found in this connection and order.) domus et patria; sedes et domicilium (dwelling-place, residence). At home, domi; inter suos (among one’s own friends): to be at home (= country), domi or in patria esse: to leave one’s home (= country), domum et propinquos relinquere: to return home, domum or in patriam redire; ad larem suum reverti: home (ward), domum: from home, domo: at home, domi (which also takes the genitives, meae, tuae, suae, nostrae, vestrae, alienae. But if another adjective, or a genitive of the possessor, be added, it is more usual to employ the preposition; as, in the home of Caes., in domo Caesaris; although Cic. says, also, domi Caesaris. In the same manner, domum and domo take those pronouns without a preposition, and domum is also very frequently used with a genitive, without the preposition in or ad; Vid: Zumpt, §410): to remain at home, domi manere, remanere (to remain in the house, at home, when the others go out): domi or domo se tenere, or se retinere, domi attineri (to keep one’s self at home): publico carere or se abstinere: in publicum non prodire (not to appear in public, or to do so very seldom): domi sedere, also with desidem (to sit inactive at home, instead of taking part in war, etc.): nidum servare (not to go out of the nest; playfully for, always to stay at home; Hor., Ep., 1, 10, 6): not to go from home, domo non excedere or non egredi: not to stir a step from home, domo pedem non efferre: one who seldom goes from home, remains almost always at home, rarus egressu (Tac., Ann., 15, 53, 1): not to be able to remain at home, durare in aedibus non posse: go home! in vestra tecta discedite! abite domum! to return home, ad larem suum reverti: my father is at home, pater meus intus est (says a son in the front of the house): to be at home, domi suae esse: he is not at home, est foris: to dine from home, cenare foras: to drive, expel from home, aliquem domo expellere; aliquem foras protrudere: to be at home anywhere, aliquo loco sedem ac domicilium habere (PROP., to have one’s habitation anywhere): in aliquo loco haoitare (PROP., to dwell in a place; figuratively = to stay constantly in a place; e.g., in the forum, in foro; but figuratively, only = to be constantly occupied with anything, to make anything one’s chief study; Vid: Cic., De Or., 2, 38, 160; de Legg., 3, 6, 1. 5; therefore not = to be at home; i. e., well versed or conversant in a thing: nor is regnare in aliqua re applicable here; i. e., to have one’s great strength in anything, to be able to do much or all in anything; Vid: Cic., Or. 27, 128): in aliqua re versatum esse: aliquid cognitum habere (figuratively, to be well versed or conversant in anything): to be at home in everything, nulla in re rudem esse: especially as I am at home here, praesertim tam familiari in loco. To fight for one’s hearth and home, pro aris et focis pugnare; pro tectis moenibusque dimicare. (Prov) Charity begins at home, proximus sum egomet mihi; ego mihi melius esse volo, quam alteri (both Terentianus). Home is home, be it never so homely, *foci proprii fumus alieno igne luculentior.

To return home, domum se convertere; domum reverti or redire.

To fetch home, domum ferre or referre aliquid (things); domum deducere aliquem: adversum ire alicui (to go to meet him and conduct him home).

To go home, domum ire, or redire or reverti (general term): domum abire (from a place): in sua tecta discedere (of a great number who disperse to their various homes): to send (or make anybody go) home, dimittere (to dismiss an assembled multitude or soldiers).

To bring home, domum referre (general term): domum deducere (to accompany or lead anybody home).

domum (accusative): at home, domi. [Vid. HOME, s.]

IMPROPR., Anything comes home to me, aliquid mea multum (magni, vehementer, etc.) interest (concerns me greatly); aliquid vehementer (caelius, ap. Cic.) ad me pertinet, or me attingit ad meque pertinet (Cic.; relates to, touches, affects me); aliquid in me cadit or convenit (is applicable to me): a discourse, etc., comes home to me, sermo nos tangit: to feel that anything said comes home to us, sibi dictum putare or sentire: to press anybody home, etiam atque etiam instare atque urgere: to strike home, ferrum adigere (per or in aliquid; also, alicui rei; e.g., jugulo, Suet., Ner., 49; also, vulnus adigere, Tac., ; vulnus alte adigere, Verg., Aen., 10, 850): ferire vitalia (Quint.; of teaching a student of oratory to make home thrusts): plagam mortiferam infligere (to inflict a mortal wound; Cic.): probe percutere aliquem (to strike him severe blows; Commodianus, Plaut.) [Vid: “to make HOME (adjective) thrusts”: to drive anything home, aliquid quanto maximo possum ictu adigere (e.g., fabrile scalprum, Liv., 27, 49): to drive a nail home, *clavum quanto maximo possum mallei ictu adigere (after Liv., 27, 49) or clavum adigere only (clavum pangere = fix in a nail).

A home thrust, plaga gravis (severe blow; also in oratory); plaga mortifera (mortal wound); vulnus alte adactum (†. Verg., Aen., 10, 850). To make home thrusts, petere aliquem vehementer (to make a vigorous attack; Cic., Or., 68, fin., comparing a gladiator with an orator; hence may be used, IMPROP., of attacking with words), recte petere (Quint., 9, 4, 8, of making a scientific blow or thrust in the palaestra, etc.): petitionem ita conjicere, ut vitari non posse videatur (PROP. or IMPROP.; Cic., Catil., 1, 6); ferire vitalia (of an orator; Quint., 5, 12, 22): to parry home thrusts, tueri vitalia (Quint., ib.); petitionem ita conjectam ut vitari non posse videatur, effugere (Cic.; or vitare, declinare, etc.). Anything is a home thrust, aliquid plagam gravem facit (e.g., oratio, Cic., Or., 68, fin.). Anybody has received a home thrust, habet or hoc habet (gladiatorial technical term).