cottage Copy link Outline 1. căsa2. tŭgŭrium (of a more humble kind, and usu. made of reeds, straw, etc.) Varr.3. māpālia, um • cottage: 1. căsa: there were a few scattered c.s, rara c. (erat), Ov.. c.s thatched with straw, c. stramentis tectae, Caes. Dimin. cāsŭla, Plin. 2. tŭgŭrium (of a more humble kind, and usu. made of reeds, straw, etc.) Varr.: the turf-thatched roof of my humble cot, pauperis t. congestum caespite culmen, Virg.. v. hut. 3. māpālia, um: applied to the huts of Nomades in Africa: "aedificia agrestium Numidarum quae mapalia illi vocant," Sall. Jug. 18: Virg.: Liv.