Latin: Vocabulary: Latin Family members / Domus aut nōmina familiārum Quiz

Family members in Latin indicated relationship by specifying whether they were related through their father or through their mother. Thus, uncles, aunts, cousins and even step-brothers and sisters had different names according to their kinship with the maternal or paternal side.

Nōmina familiārum mūtat ad propinquitātem cōnsanguinitātis aut cognātiōnis. Patruī et avunculī exempla hāc relātiōne. Nōscis cognātiōnis nōmen?