• RENT

1. s. (from REND), scissura: scissum.

2. s. Annual payment (for land, etc.), fructus: reditus (received): vectigal (received or paid): pretium conducti (paid): merces (the payment; annua merces, if calculated yearly): house-rent, merces habitationis: habitatio. What rent does he pay? quanti habitat? to give a high rent, magni habitare: he pays the rent of thirty thousand ases, triginta millibus (understand aeris) habitat: to remit, return the house-rent, conductoribus annuam habitationem remittere, or annuam mercedem habitationis donare: rent day, *dies vectigalis: rent roll, *index, codex, vectigalis.

3. v. conducere (to take on hire; e.g., hortum, domum): mercede conducere. A rented house, domus (mercede) conducta: to live in a rented house, habitare in conducto: I have rented a place for him in my neighborhood, huic ego locum in proximo conduxi (Cic.).