Latin

Noun

larārium n ‎(genitive larāriī); second declension

1. in a Roman home, the part of the house set aside as a shrine or chapel for the household gods.

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• lār
• larālia
• Larēs

References

• lararium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lararium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• lararium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lararium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin