home (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. dŏmĭcĭlium (usual abode)2. dŏmus, ūs or i (the latter only as locative), f.3. tectum (any shelter, under a roof)4. lar, lăris, m. (meton.5. fŏcus (meton.) • home (subs.): 1. dŏmĭcĭlium (usual abode): to have one's h. (place of residence) in Italy, d. in Italia habere, Cic. Arch. 4, 7: Pl. Fig.: to go to the skies, as to one's h., in coelum quasi in d. suum pervenire, Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 24. Join: sedes ac domicilium [collocare], Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, 6. 2. dŏmus, ūs or i (the latter only as locative), f.: esp. in the forms, domi, at home; domum, to one's h.; domo, from h. (after a verb of motion): in other uses = house, esp. a city house (v. house): (i), at h., domi: at h. and in the field, belli domique, Sall. Jug. 41; cf. Cic. Off. 2, 24, 85, vel belli vel domi; belli domique, Liv. 9, 24; militiae et domi, Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 49: the possess. prons. meae, tuae, suae, may be added either for emphasis or distinction: cf. Cic. Fam. 13, 69, apud eum fui, tanquam domi meae, I was as much "at home" as if I had been at home: Ter.: (ii). homewards, to one's home, dŏmum; of a number, usu. domos (meam, tuam, suam, etc., may be added, as above): escorted h. at evening, domum reductus ad vesperum, Cic. Am. 3, 12: that they should return to their several h.s, d. suam quemque reverti, Caes. B. G. 2, 10: cf. suas quisque abirent domos, Liv. 2, 7, init.: (iii). from h., denoting motion: those who would not leave their h.s, qui domo exire nolebant, Cic. Fl. 6, fin. (Occasionally domo = at home: Varr. R. R. 1, 8, init.) 3. tectum (any shelter, under a roof): v. habitation. 4. lar, lăris, m. (meton.: strictly, the house-hold god): sometimes with familiaris: that we should nowhere have a h., nobis l. familiarem nusquam esse, Sall. Cat. 20: to leave one's h., l. familiarem suum relinquere, Cic. Verr. 3, 11, 27: esp. poet., to be driven from h., lare pelli, Ov. F. 6, 362: Mart. (Lar conveys with it more of the domestic sense: cf. Liv. 26, 25, med., urbe, tecto, mensa, lare, recipere: where lare denotes the most intimate degree of association.) 5. fŏcus (meton.): v. hearth. Phr.: at h. ("within," i. e. in the house), intus: is your brother at h.? estne frater intus? Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 30 (Cic. Sen. 4, 12, has intus domique, where intus refers to privacy, domi to home occupation): away from h., peregre, foris, foras (the last after a verb of motion: v. abroad): to be "not at h." to any one, alicui occupatum (lit. engaged) esse, Cic. Sen. 10, 32: he is making himself at h. there in her house, intimum ibi se apud illam facit, Pl. Mil. 2, 1, 30: that stays much at h. (in-doors), umbratilis, umbraticus (v. in-door): quite at h. in any subject, in aliqua re multum [et saepe] versatus, Cic. Quint. 1, 3: to be quite at h. in ancient history, *totam antiquitatem penitus cognitam perspectamque habere.