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“house-room” in Latin
spatiumspace, room, extent; distance between points; a square, walk, or promenadelaxitāswidth, spaciousness, roominessaedistemple, shrine; tomb; roomVelleiusof or pertaining to the gens Velleia.laxuswide, spacious, roomy; yielding; loose, slack, freehabitōto reside, inhabit, remain, dwell, live; to linger
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
house-room
spatium (general term): laxitas (ample size, e.g., aedium). Plenty of house-room, spatiosa et capax domus; laxior domus (Velleius, 2, 81): to have plenty of house-room, bene habitare (general term); laxe (et magnifice) habitare: not to have house-room enough, *anguste habitare or parum laxe habitare. No house, however large, could furnish house-room for such a multitude of slaves, turba servorum quamvis magnam domum angustet (Sen., Cons, ad Helv., 11 angustare, post-Augustan). Not house-room enough; a house in which there is not house-room enough, domus angusta (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for house-room?
- The usual Latin words for “house-room” are spatium, laxitās, aedis; also Velleius, laxus, habitō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.