What is a roman toilet called?

Answer 1

If you mean "bathroom" as a place for getting clean it was called either a lavatio or a balneum. If it were a hot or mineral bath is was called thermae. If you mean bathroom as we know it today, as a place where the toilet is located, it was called a latrina.

Answer 2

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

Answer 3

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.

Answer 4

Balneum or balineum was the word for both bathtub and bathroom. Only the detached house (domus) of the rich had a bathroom.

The poor who lived in the upper floors of the tenements (insulae) which, did not have running water, only had small and overcrowded rooms where people could only sleep. The poor lived their lives outdoors, ate outdoors, and went to outdoors public toilets and washed and bathed at the public baths.

The rich also went to the public baths, which were called thermae. For then, going to the baths was part of their leisured lifestyle and a place where they could meet their clients and engage in intellectual pursuits. Most romans spent a couple of hours at the thermae after the working day, which started at dawn and ended at noon.

From the second century BC the thermae were one of the main meeting points for people. They could be big monumental complexes s with many facilities. Friends met there, rich people met their clients, and group meals could be arranged. Politicians canvassed there. Poetry readings and oratory debates were held. There was also a gym and massage areas. Bigger baths also had shops, eating outlets and areas, a swimming pool and libraries (the baths of Caracalla had two libraries, a Latin one and a Greek one) and rooms for poetry reading. The Romans believed that good health came from eating, bathing, massage and physical and mental exercise: mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy/sound mind in a healthy body). Therefore their baths provided for all of these.

The main routine was to start with exercising and/or playing sports at the palaestra (the gym). This followed by bathing. Washing was separate from bathing. Bathers also had olive oil put on their body, and had their skin scraped with special metal scrapers (the strigil). Pumice and beech ash were used to treat the skin. Afterwards they had a massage which was done with perfumed ointments such almond oil and myrrh imported from the East and Egypt.

Answer 5

The word toilet has two connotations. It can mean elimination of body wastes or personal grooming. If you want the personal grooming word, it can be either "cultus" or "ornatus". If you want the privy, it is "fornicae". A chamber pot is called a "matula" or a "metella". Sometimes the word "latrina" is used, but latrina more properly connotes a place of washing.

Answer 6

ancient Rome didn't have "washrooms", but they did have bath complexes with hot and cold water. Most people went there daily. The restrooms were very communal and were basically wooden or stone with holes for sitting on. They did have a system of water that moved the debris out into a sewer system. Romans used a wet sponge instead of toilet paper.

Answer 7

The Romans called toilets either forica or latrina.