lar

singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.

Noun human sciences, mysticism

  1. singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
    • 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...
  2. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

Origin

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

Forms

lars lares

Noun historical

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

Origin

From Latin [Term?].

Forms

lars

Particle

  1. Alternative spelling of lah.