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Lar
//lɑː// noun, particle
Definitions
Noun
- 1 singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself. Roman, form-of, in-plural, singular
"Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?"
- 2 An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name. historical
- 3 Abbreviation of liquid argon (“a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar)”). abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 4 Alternative form of LAr (liquid argon) alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 5 singular of Lares. form-of, singular
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- 6 A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
- 7 Abbreviation of low anterior resection. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Particle
- 1 Alternative spelling of lah. Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.
Etymology 2
From Latin [Term?].
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