flamen
Ancient Roman priest
A flamen was a priest in ancient Rome devoted to the worship of a particular deity.
Each flamen served one god exclusively—the most prestigious being the flamen Dialis, priest of Jupiter.
The position came with elaborate ritual restrictions and taboos.
The word appears primarily in historical and scholarly contexts about Roman religion.
Giving up something precious
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- offeringSomething presented or given
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
- purificationRemoval of contaminants
invocation · consecration · auspices · divination · augury · propitiation · rite · ceremony
Uppermost point or culmination
Largest solar system planet
Gathering place for discourse
- templeSacred worship structure
- curiaAdministrative assembly hall
- fascesBound rods with axe
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
senate · Latin · civic · republic · pontifex maximus · college · state religion
Roman religious authority
- augurOne who reads omens
- vestalRelating to Roman hearth goddess
- rex sacrorumRoman religious office
- curioOdd collectible item
collegium · ordination · appointment · succession · lineage · priestcraft
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- offeringSomething presented or given
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
purification · invocation · consecration · auspices · divination · augury · propitiation · rite · ceremony · procession
apex
Uppermost point or culmination
Jupiter
Largest solar system planet
Ceres · Pomona · veneration · devotion · worship · divine · sacred
forum
Gathering place for discourse
patrician · senate · Latin · civic · republic · pontifex maximus · college · state religion
pontifex
Roman religious authority
- augurOne who reads omens
- vestalRelating to Roman hearth goddess
- rex sacrorumRoman religious office
curio · collegium · ordination · appointment · succession · lineage · priestcraft
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- Roman societypatrician, patricians, plebeian, plebeians, citizen
- temple workersacolyte, altar server, sacristan, sexton, temple guard
- Roman religionJupiter, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Neptune
- ancient clergyhigh priest, high priestess, priestess, pontifex, vestal
- ancient priestspontifex, pontifex maximus, vestal, augur, high priest
flamenconsul
Diplomat in foreign city
senator · magistrate · praetor · tribune · citizen
flamenlayman
Ordinary untrained person
laity · congregant · worshipper · supplicant