lares

From the Latin plural lares, from lar, q.v.

lares pl (normally plural, singular lar)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lares
   • 1773, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ovid to his Wife:

     The season now invites me to retire
     To the dear lares of my household fire
     To homely scenes of calm domestic peace,
     A poet's leisure, and an old man's ease...

• Arels, Arles, LASER, Laser, Searl, arles, arsle, earls, laser, lears, rales, reals, saler, seral

larēs

1. nominative plural of lār

• Lares

• “lares”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lares”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “lares”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “lares”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “lares”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

lares m

1. plural of lar

lares m pl

1. plural of lar
2. place (used only in fixed phrases)

• Desconozco estos lares (I don't recognize this place.