lars
Alternative form of Lares.
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Lars
A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
Lars (plurale tantum)
Alternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities
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Source: Wiktionary
Lar, n.; pl. Lares, sometimes Lars. Etym: [L.] (Rom. Myth.)
Definition: A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house. Nor will she her dear Lar forget, Victorious by his benefit. Lovelace. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton. Looking backward in vain toward their Lares and lands. Longfellow.
Lar, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
