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English
Etymology
From Latin larārium.
Noun
lararium (plural lararia)
- (historical) In an ancient Roman home, the part of the house set aside as a shrine or chapel for the household gods.
Latin
Etymology
From Larēs (“household gods”) + -ārium (“place for”).
Pronunciation
Noun
larārium n (genitive larāriī or larārī); second declension
- in a Roman home, the part of the house set aside as a shrine or chapel for the household gods.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “lararium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lararium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lararium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lararium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin