lar

Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɑː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑɹ/, [lɑɹ], [lɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː, -ɑɹ

lar (plural lars or lares)

1. (Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
   • 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.

The gibbon is pluralized as lars. The Latin household gods usually appear as the plurale tantum Lares, following its Latin plural form and capitalized to denote a particular group of lares; the alternative forms Lars, lares, and lars sometimes appear.

Latin [Term?]

• lars

lar

1. (historical) An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.

• Chambers 1908.

• ALR, LRA

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin laurus.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /laɾ/

lar m (plural larë, definite lari, definite plural larët)

1. (botany) laurel (Laurus nobilis)

• dafinë

• larëz, larth, larushkë

• laar

From Old High German lāri, from Proto-West Germanic *lāʀi, from Proto-Germanic *lēziz. Cognate with German leer, Dutch laar, English leer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑː/

lar

1. empty

From Latin larem (“guardian spirit; home”), from Etruscan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾ/

lar m (plural lares)

1. home (place or building where one dwells)

   Miña casiña meu lar.

   My house, my home.

2. fireside
3. hearth
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna caldeyra de trager agoa, iten hua caldeyra de sobre do lar, iten dous caldeyros de mao

     item, a bucket for carrying water; item a cauldron for hanging over the hearth; item two hand cauldrons

4. a household or ancestral god in ancient Rome

• (home): casa, fogar
• (fireside): lareira
• (hearth): ástrago, larega, sollo

• larada
• lareira (“fireplace”)
• larengo (“piglet”)
• lariño (“nest”) (snug residence)

Perhaps from Suevic or borrowed from Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”), from Proto-Germanic *laiza- (“clay”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

lar m (plural lares)

1. clay

   Synonyms: arxila, xiz, toba, sarso, xarzo, greda

• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• lars

Probably from Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌓 (lar), 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌔 (lars), or 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌈 (larθ, “lord”), though it could possibly be from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“eager”), cognate with lascivus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laːr/, [ɫ̪äːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lar/, [lär]

lār m (genitive laris); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• Larēs

• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

lar

1. Alternative form of lore

lar

1. present tense of la

lar

1. present tense of la

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

• IPA^(key): /lɑːr/

lār f (nominative plural lāre)

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

• bōclār
• mislār

• lǣran

• Middle English: lore, lar, lare, layre, lere, leyre, loore; lære, leore, loare
  • English: lore
    • → Russian: лор (lor)
    • → Ukrainian: лор (lor)
  • Scots: lare, lair

Borrowed from Latin larem (“guardian spirit”), likely from Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌓 (lar), 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌔 (lars), or 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌈 (larθ, “lord”).

• (Caipira Brazil) IPA^(key): /laɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: lar

lar m (plural lares)

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

   Synonym: casa

   Não há lugar como o nosso lar.

   There is no place like home.

2. hearth (place in a home for lighting fires)

   Synonym: lareira

3. the surface of a baking oven

Lar is not as used as loosely as English home. Lar is used to express affection to one’s abode; in other contexts, casa is used instead.

• do lar
• lar, doce lar
• lareira

From Latin lārem, in its current form most likely a learned borrowing[1]. A popular or inherited form also existed, referring to the irons in a hearth on which vats were hung to heat water or make stews. The word may ultimately be of Etruscan origin. Doublet of llar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾ/ [ˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: lar

lar m (plural lares)

1. hearth

   Synonym: hogar

• “lar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014