English
lares and penates
Lares and penates comes from Latin lares et penates.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElares et penates
- Englishearliest quotation 1775lares and penates
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElares et penates
- Englishearliest quotation 1775lares and penates
Earliest quotation: 1775, Horace Walpole: “I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to…”
Made of the words lares + and + penates
Latin lār ‘the protective spirit of a place’
English lares
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘face’
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Proto-Germanic *andi ‘in addition’
Proto-West Germanic *andi
Old English and
Middle English and ‘and’
English and
Proto-Indo-European *pén-os ‘food’
Proto-Italic *penos
Latin penus ‘inner part of house’
Latin penātēs ‘Roman guardian deities of the household’
English penates
The story
A calque of Latin lares et penates.
Every English word from Latin lares et penates
Today it means
noun The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lares et penates / lares and penates