lar
nounEtymology From Latin [Term?].
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Historical An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.
lar
nounUK /lɑː/ · US /lɑɹ/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.
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Human sciences, Mysticism, Mythology, Philosophy, Sciences Roman, In plural 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 with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
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A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).