Disputatio:Viridarium

"Park" in Latin

Greetings. The ancient Romans did not have parks, but they had gardens for houses wich they called hortus. So how would "park" be called in modern Latin? I like the name viridarium. It tells well what a park can be; in a logically way and and in a way of feelings. But unfortunately this name has no source. The name horti and maybe lesser horti publici might work a little for "park", but might not fit perfectly.

Please add sources with names if you can. :)

Donatello (disputatio) 14:59, 17 Martii 2014 (UTC).

Viridarium (with variant spellings) is fine: you can find references in C. T. Lewis et C. Short (1879). A Latin Dictionary. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. The gloss given there is "a plantation of trees, a pleasure-garden". That's a park. Formal-ish gardens in a city like Rome, open to the public, were called "horti". A "paradisus" would be wilder, more like a hunting park (or safari park, I guess). Adam and Eve first lived in God's safari park, but, as we know, he turned them out. 15:12, 17 Martii 2014 (UTC)