Lares

• lares, Lars, Lares

From Latin Lares, plural form of lār, from Etruscan.

Lares pl (normally plural, singular Lar)

1. (Roman mythology) The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.
2. (historical) The idols representing these deities.

• lares and penates

• penates

• Arels, LASER, Searl, arles, arsle, earls, laser, lears, rales, reals, seral

• larēs
• Lasēs

From older Lasēs, perhaps from Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌓 (lar), 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌔 (lars), or 𐌋𐌀𐌓𐌈 (lartʰ, “lord”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.reːs/, [ˈɫa.reːs]

Larēs m (genitive Larum or Larium); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Lares, the classical Roman gods of a place, particularly homes; household deity
2. A city of Africa situated on the valley of the Bagrada, now Lorbeus

• The plural was archaically Lasēs.

• lār
• lārva

• English: lares, Lares, Lars

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