Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Janitor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

JA'NITOR (θυρωρός). The doorkeeper or porter; a slave who kept the keys of the street door (janua), and sat in the porter's lodge at the entrance of a house. Cic. Verr. ii. 3. 2. Plaut. Men. iv. 2. 115.