lares

See also: Lares and läres

English

Etymology

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

Noun

lares pl (normally plural, singular lar)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lares.
   • 1773, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ovid to his Wife:

     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...

Anagrams

• Searl, seral, reals, laser, Sarel, ALSer, 'rales, Earls, arles, rales, Laser, Arles, Arels, saler, earls, LASER, lears, arsle

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.reːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.res]

Noun

larēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of lār

References

• “lares”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lares”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “lares”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “lares”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “lares”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Portuguese

Noun

lares m

1. plural of lar

Spanish

Noun

lares m pl

1. plural of lar
2. place (used only in fixed phrases)

   Desconozco estos lares.

   I don't recognize this place.