lar

See also lär, lår, and -lar

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /lɑː/

Etymology 1

Latin lār (“household”).

Noun

lar (plural lares)

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?

Etymology 2

Noun

lar (plural lars)

1. A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burma. Called also the common or white-handed gibbon.

Anagrams

• ALR
• LRA

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Latin

Noun

lār (genitive laris); m, third declension

1. hearth, dwelling, home, household

Related terms

• Larēs

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Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɑːr/

Noun

lār f. (nominative plural lāre)

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

Related terms

• lǣran

Descendants

• English: lore

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Portuguese

Noun

lar m. (plural lars)

1. home

Synonyms

• casa f.

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin lar

Noun

lar m. (plural lares)

1. home

Synonyms

• hogar m.

See also

• casa f.