roast Copy link • roast, or roasted (adj.): assus: r. veal, assum vitulinum, Cic. Fam. 9, 20: r. beef, assa bubula (caro), Pl. Curc. 2, 3, 88: as soon as you have mixed boiled and r. together, simul assis miscueris elixa, Hor. S. 2, 2, 73.