draughts Copy link • draughts: latrōcĭnium, latruncŭli: applicable to any kind of game played with "men" (v. chess): or calcŭli, counters: q. v. N.B. Certainly not duodecim scripta (R. and A.), though octodecim scripta would be agreeable to analogy: cf. Quint. 11, 2, 38.