Via Nomentana the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls. Pope Pius IV decided to move the first stretch of the road and built the Porta Pia for this purpose. There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which is the Ponte Nomentano. Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and
Vulgar Latin vocabulary ( 'knee joint' ), originally a veterinary term only, replaced the classical Latin word for leg ("crus") in most Romance languages. (cf. Fr. jambe, It. gamba). Cooking terms were also often borrowed from Greek sources; a calque based on a Greek term was "ficatum (iecur)" (goose's liver fattened with figs, see foie gras for more information), with the participle "ficatum" becoming the common word for liver in Vulgar Latin (cf. Sp. "hígado", Fr. "foie", It. "fegato", Pt "fígado", Romanian "ficat"). Important religious terms were also drawn from religious texts written in Greek, such as "episcopus" (bishop), "presbyter" (priest), "martyr" etc.