13.08.24: follow-up; food and drink [2] vocabulary and notes [1]

The image posted here – courtesy of another member of the group – contains examples of “New Latin”, sometimes known as Neo-Latin; this will be discussed in greater detail in later posts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Latin

Some of the vocabulary was coined in the post-Classical period or refers to, for example, more specific types of food now e.g. pancakes and biscuits, the true nature of which in Ancient Rome can be rather vague.

artolaganus, -ī [2/m]: used in the image to describe a pancake; “a kind of bread or cake (made of meal, wine, milk, oil, lard, and pepper” (Lewis and Short)

also: laganum, -ī [2/n]: again, definitions can be vague [i] pancake; flat cake (Wiktionary) [ii] “a kind of cake made of flour and oil” (Lewis and Short); laganumis from Anc. Gk. λάγανον (láganon) meaning ‘thin broad cake; pancake’

https://neolatinlexicon.org/latin/pancake/

https://neolatinlexicon.org/latin/pancake_fritter_doughnut/

To see the issues pertaining to exact definitions of some of these words, it’s worth looking at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracta_(dough)

Tracta, tractum (Ancient Greek: τρακτὸς, τρακτόν), also called laganon, laganum, or lagana (Greek: λάγανον) was a kind of drawn out or rolled-out pastry dough in Roman and Greek cuisines. What exactly it was is unclear: "Latin tracta... appears to be a kind of pastry. It is hard to be sure, because its making is never described fully"; and it may have meant different things at different periods. Laganon / laganum was at different periods an unleavened bread, a pancake, or later, perhaps a sort of pasta.

aurantium, -ī [2/n]: orange tree, the term used in scholarly / scientific writing post 15th century (more on this in later posts)

caf(f)ēa, -ae [1/f]: (New Latin) coffee

cereālia: cereals < cereālis, -e: pertaining to wheat

crustulum, -ī: biscuit; “small pastry; confectionary” (Lewis and Short); from crustum, -ī [2/n]: cake; pastry; pie

saccharum, -ī [2/n]: (New Latin) sugar

cubicus, -a, -um: cubic; cubical

thea, -ae [1/f]: (New Latin) tea

tōstus, -a, -um: roasted; scorched; toasted