lar

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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?"