The corpus record — Latin

lar

lar · m

a prænomen of Etruscan origin

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 8 · 7.1/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 5.39/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 7 · 3.12/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Lār — Lewis & Short

Lār or Lars, Lartis, m.,

I a prænomen of Etruscan origin (in Etruscan, usu: the prefix of the first-born, while a younger son was called Aruns. The name Lar, Lars, or Larth was an honorary appellation in Etruscan, = Engl. lord): Lars Tolumnius, rex Veientium, Cic. Phil. 9, 2; Liv. 4, 17, 1; 4, 58, 7: ad Lartem Porsenam, id. 2, 9 (nom. Lar, Charis. 110 P.).

2. Lār — Lewis & Short

Lār, Lăris, m., v. 1. Lares, ium.

In the wild

lares Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
lares Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
larem Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.6.66
larem Sallust, Catilina 20.p3
larem Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.151
larem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.7.3

6 of 148 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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