waiter
WAITER
famulus (as a domestic servant): minister (a helper assistant): apparitor: stator (of magistrates; the latter of those in the provinces). A female waiter famula (as a domestic servant): ministra (a female assistant): ministra cauponae: (at an inn etc.; Codex Just. 9 7 1 § 1 Ritter): ancilla (a maid-servant).
Tray so called repositorium (☞ Freund’s Lex. Petron. 35 2 etc.).
famulus (as a domestic servant): minister (a helper assistant): apparitor: stator (of magistrates; the latter of those in the provinces). A female waiter famula (as a domestic servant): ministra (a female assistant): ministra cauponae: (at an inn etc.; Codex Just. 9 7 1 § 1 Ritter): ancilla (a maid-servant).
Tray so called repositorium (☞ Freund’s Lex. Petron. 35 2 etc.).
waiter:
I. One who waits, an attendant, servant:
1. mĭnister: Jove's Phrygian w. (cup-bearer), Jovis Phrygius minister, Mart. 12, 15, 7.
2. puer: bring water for my hands, w., cedo aquam manibus puer, Pl. Most. 1, 3, 150: we have three w.s at table, cena ministratur pueris tribus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.
3. servus, fămŭlus: v.SERVANT , ATTENDANT . A female w., waitress: ministra, fămŭla, ancilla, v. MAID-SERVANT . (The waiting at table was not assigned to women, but to men or boys.)
II. A tray: fercŭlum: v.TRAY .
I. One who waits, an attendant, servant:
1. mĭnister: Jove's Phrygian w. (cup-bearer), Jovis Phrygius minister, Mart. 12, 15, 7.
2. puer: bring water for my hands, w., cedo aquam manibus puer, Pl. Most. 1, 3, 150: we have three w.s at table, cena ministratur pueris tribus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.
3. servus, fămŭlus: v.
II. A tray: fercŭlum: v.
Waiters
See cena; famulus; servus.