Meanings
lars1
- alternativeAlternative form of Lares.
lars2
- alternativeAlternative form of lar (“Etruscan title”).
Lars3
- A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said.
2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022
Lars4
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities.
Dwarfish deities they had none. We are indeed told of the Lars, particularly the rural Lars, as answering to the Gothic Dwarfs; but no proofs are offered except the diminutive size of their statues.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234
Origin
Lars · proper noun
- LatinLaurentius
- EnglishLars
Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.
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Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.
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lars. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lars
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