lares

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noun

The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.

OriginLatin Lares ← Etruscan [Term?] →
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Meanings

lares1

nounlares pl (normally plural, singular lar)

singular lar

  1. pluralplural normallyAlternative letter-case form of Lares.

    The season now invites me to retire To the dear lares of my household fire To homely scenes of calm domestic peace, A poet's leisure, and an old man's ease...

    1773, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ovid to his Wife

Lares2

nounLares pl (normally plural, singular Lar)

singular Lar · alternative lares · alternative Lars

  1. Romanpluralplural normallyhuman sciencesThe household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.
  2. historicalpluralplural normallyThe idols representing these deities.

Origin

lares · noun

From the Latin plural lares, from lar, q.v.

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Lares · noun

  1. Etruscan[Term?]
  2. LatinLares
  3. EnglishLares

From Latin Lares, plural form of lār, from Etruscan [Term?].

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Translations

Finnish laarit
  • laaritdeities in Roman mythology

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

laserarlesseralsalerSearlSarelselarALSer
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