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lar¹

  • /lɑː/ UK
  • /lɑɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

noun lars · lares

  1. Roman, in plural, singular 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?
  2. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

lar²

Where it comes from

From Latin [Term?].

noun lars

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

lar³

particle

  1. Manglish, Singlish, alternative Alternative spelling of lah

LAr⁴

noun LAR

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of liquid argon (“a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar)”).

    Similar: Ar

LAR⁵

noun

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of LAr (liquid argon)
  2. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of low anterior resection

Lar⁶

noun Lares

  1. singular singular of Lares Lest any marvel who I am, I shall Briefly declare it. I am the family Lar Of this house whence you see me coming out.

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@misc{lar_2026,
  title = {lar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}