English
lar
Lar comes from Latin lār ‘ancestral deity or spirit’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElār‘ancestral deity or spirit’
- Englishearliest quotation 1974lar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElār‘ancestral deity or spirit’
- Englishearliest quotation 1974lar
Earliest quotation: 1974, Guy Davenport: “Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *las- ‘eager’
through Latin lār ‘ancestral deity or spirit’
Today it means
noun A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lār / lar