lar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lar"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Larteh.

Symbol

lar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Larteh.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Larteh terms

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

lares

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

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• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

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. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

Usage notes

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.

Etymology 2

From Latin [Term?].

Alternative forms

• lars

Noun

lar

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

References

• Chambers 1908.

Etymology 3

Particle

lar

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Alternative spelling of lah.

Anagrams

• ALR, LRA