Question!

(Title from the System Of a Down song)

These days I've stopped living and have taken to quizzing full time!I'm currently preparing questions for a quiz that I'll be doing for our canteen quiz club-Su Chhe.Questions should be up on this blog in a day or two.But Wikipedia and IMDB are
the second best things to have happened to mankind since the computer!

This one for the time being-

This word originally meant "placed on the knees." In Ancient Rome, a father legally claimed his newborn child by sitting in front of his family and placing his child on his knee.Which word in English lexicon?