Latin

Alternative forms

• Lars

Proper noun

Lār m ‎(genitive Lartis); third declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Declension

Third declension.

References

• Lar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Lar”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

lar ‎(plural lares or lars)

1. A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?

2. The lar gibbon.

Usage notes

The first sense is most often used in English as the capitalized plurale tantum Lares. It is more often pluralized lares as in Latin than lars.

Derived terms

• lares and penates

Anagrams

• ALR, LRA

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin laurus 'laurel'.

Noun

lar m

1. laurel

Latin

Alternative forms

• lars

Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌓 ‎(lar), 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌔 ‎(lars), or 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌈 ‎(larθ, “lord”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laːr/, [ɫaːr]

Noun

lār m ‎(genitive laris); third declension

1. the protective spirit of a place, particularly a household
2. home, household

Declension

Third declension.

Related terms

• Larēs

Descendants

References

• Lar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lar in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Lojban

Rafsi

lar

1. rafsi of larcu.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lar

1. present tense of la

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną ‎(“to teach”). Cognate with Old Saxon lēra, Dutch leer, Old High German lēra (German Lehre).

Pronunciation

Noun

lār f ‎(nominative plural lāre)

1. teaching, learning, education
2. lesson
3. teaching, doctrine
4. advice, counsel

Related terms

• lǣran

Descendants

• Middle English: lore
  • English: lore

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin larem ‎(“guardian spirit”), from Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌓 ‎(lar), 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌔 ‎(lars), or 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌈 ‎(larth, “lord”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾ/
• (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾ/
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɹ/

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. (affectionate) home (place or building where one dwells)

   Não há lugar como o nosso lar.‎

   There is no place like home.

Synonyms

• casa

Related terms

• lareira

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lār, lārem.

Noun

lar m ‎(plural lares)

1. (archaic) home

Synonyms

• hogar m

See also

• casa f