lar

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 197 words | Copyright

lar pl. lares household god(s); hearth, home XVI. — L. lār, pl. lārēs; prob. orig. ‘infernal divinities’ and hence rel. to lārva spectre, ghost (LARVA).

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