Noun: lar
| Singular | lar |
| Plural | lars; lares |
Sample Sentences
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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!:]
Nouns inflected like lar
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan. See: Latin Nouns '
lār'.