“house” in Latin

domus (a house or a place for living in, with all its appurtenances, as, the house PROP. so called, the court, garden, etc. [hence = mansion, palace]; also that of animals, as, of the turtle; then, also, metonymy = house affairs; again = the family inhabiting the house; and, general term, the house of a citizen): aedes, plur.; aedificium (the dwelling-house, the building; opposed to other places or single parts of it; Vid: Nep., Att., 13, 4, domus amoenitas non aedificio sed silva constabat. Ipsum enim tectum, etc.): domicilium (general term, a dwelling-place or residence, which anyone occupies for a certain space of time; Vid: Caes., B.G., 6, 30, aedificium circumdatum est silva, ut fere sunt domicilia Gallorum, etc.): insula (a large building, separated on all sides from other buildings; the slave who had the superintendence of such was called insularius): tectum (PROP., a roof, frequently used by the Romans for “house,” considered as a place of protection): familia (the inhabitants of a house, especially the servants; then, also, the family from which anyone is descended): genus (the family from which anyone is descended): res familiaris (house affairs): A small house, domuncula: aediculae: casa (a cottage, hut): a large town house, palatium: moles (in respect of immense extent): in the house, domi: in or at my house, domi meae; in domo mea; domi apud me (☞ domi meae, tuae, suae, nostrae, vestrae, alienae; but with any other adjective, or with genitive of the possessor, the preposition is preferred; e.g., in domo Caesaris, though even Cic. says domi Caesaris; Vid: HOME): from house to house, per domos; ostiatim (from door to door): to search anybody’s house, inquirere apud aliquem (general term, Cic., Att., 1, 16, 12); to order anybody’s house to be searched, immissis (lictoribus ceterisque) publicis ministris angulatim sedulo cuncta perlustrari jubere (Apul., Met., 9, p. 237, 25; ☞ Petronius, 98, 1): to search anybody’s house for stolen goods, apud aliquem rem furtivam quaexeie (Justinus, Inst., 4, 1); furtum quaerere in domo alicujus (Fest. p. 199, Dac.). ☞ The “act of searching anybody’s house” was scrutinium (Apul., Met., 9, p. 237, 25): to find the stolen goods in anybody’s house, rem furtivam in alicujus domo deprendere: to set one’s house in order, omnes res diligentissime constituere (Hirt., B. Afr., 88): sarcinas colligere, antequam proficiscar e vita (= prepare for death, Varr., R.R., 1, init.): to leave or quit a house, emigrare (e) domo (opposed to immigrare in domum, to get into a new house): to keep open house, alicui quotidie sic cena coquitur, ut invocatis amicis una cenare liceat (after Nep., Cim., 4, 3): property in houses, urbanum praedium (applying not only to property in towns, but to the possession of any buildings: ☞ Ulp., Dig., 50, 16, 198). The affairs of the house; Vid: “DOMESTIC affairs”

House and home, sedes (a residence): fundus (an estate, land and house): domus et fundus, or domus et possessiones (a house and estate or possession). To drive anyone from house and home, exturbare aliquem e possessionibus, or bonis patriis, or laribus patriis, or fortunis omnibus: to leave house and home (in order to go into a foreign country), domum et propinquos relinquere (to leave one’s home and relations): to fight for house and home, pro tectis moenibusque dimicare; pro aris et focis pugnare (both of the inhabitants of a town, country, etc.). The master, the mistress of a house, herus, hera (in respect of those under them); pater, mater familias or familiae (in respect of the family): the people (servants) of the house, domestici, familia: back of the house, postica pars or posticae partes aedium, domus postica (the building or buildings behind); aversa domus pars (as opposed to the front of the house; the windows of which look into the court): to creep out through the back of the house, domo postica clam egredi; per aversam domus partem furtim degredi: from my, our house, a me, a nobis (especially in Plaut. and Terentianus): to keep the house, domi or domo se tenere or retinere (general terms): publico carere or se abstinere; in publicum non prodire (to show one’s self seldom in public); domo non excedere or non egredi (not to stir from the house); domo abdi (to hide one’s self in one’s house): never to quit the house, domo pedem non efferre: to be in the house [Vid: “to be at HOME”]: to drive anybody from one’s house, aliquem domo expellere, extrudere, or ejicere; aliquem foras trudere. To entertain in one’s house, hospitio accipere or excipere aliquem; hospitio domum ad se recipere aliquem, hospitium alicui praebere (as a guest); in domum suam recipere aliquem tecto accipere or recipere aliquem; tectum praebere alicui (general terms, to receive into one’s house, under one’s roof; accipere, more as a friend; excipere and recipere, as a protector, etc.); recipere, receptare aliquem or aliquem ad se (to receive to one’s self, especially of those who conceal thieves, etc.; hence called receptores): to be received into anybody’s house, esse in hospitio apud aliquem; hospitio alicujus uti.

To place under shelter for protection, condere (e.g., frumentum): contegere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) condere et reponere (e.g., fructus); reponere contegereque (e.g., arma omnia, Caes.): in tecta contegere (e.g., troops, milites).

Receive under one’s roof, tecto recipere aliquem (Caes., B.G., 7, 66, 7): recipere aliquem in tectum (Plaut., Rud., 2, 7, 16): hospitio aliquem excipere: moenibus tectisque accipere aliquem: tectis et sedibus recipere aliquem (these two of the inhabitants of a town harboring soldiers, exiles, etc.): stabulare (general term, to place animals in a stall, Varr., R.R., 1, 21). To be housed, tectum subiisse (of a person): stabulari (post- Augustan, of animals): or the passives of the verbs above given.

INTRANS., To reside under anybody’s roof, habitare cum aliquo (also used IMPROP., as Milton, etc., use “to house;” e.g., hiems habitat in Alpinis jugis). Vid: RESIDE.