Lares

• lares, Lars, Lares

From Latin Lares, plural form of lār, from Etruscan [Term?].

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.

   Coordinate term: lemures

2. (historical) The idols representing these deities.

• penates

• lares and penates

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.reːs/, [ˈɫ̪äreːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.res/, [ˈläːres]

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

• larēs, Lasēs

Larēs m pl (genitive Larum or Larium); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Lares, the classical Roman gods of a place, particularly homes; household deity

• The plural was archaically Lasēs.

Third-declension noun (parisyllabic non-i-stem or i-stem), plural only.

• lār
• lārva

• English: lares, Lares, Lars

Larēs ? pl (genitive Larium); third declension

1. A city in Africa situated on the valley of the Bagrada, now Lorbeus

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾes/ [ˈla.ɾes]
• Rhymes: -aɾes
• Syllabification: La‧res

Lares ?

1. A town in Puerto Rico