different between lar vs larf

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?r (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??/, [l??], [l??]

Noun

lar (plural lars or lares)

1. (Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
2. The lar gibbon.

Usage notes

The gibbon is pluralized as lars. The Latin household gods usually appear as the plurale tantum Lares, following its Latin plural form and capitalized to denote a particular group of lares; the alternative forms Lars, lares, and lars sometimes appear.

Anagrams

• ALR, LRA

Albanian

Etymology

An early borrowing from Latin laurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lar m (indefinite plural larë, definite singular lari, definite plural larët)

1. (botany) laurel (Laurus nobilis)

Declension

Synonyms

• dafinë

Derived terms

• larëz, larth, larushkë

References

Galician

Etymology

From Latin larem (“guardian spirit; home”), from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?/

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. home (place or building where one dwells)

2. fireside
3. hearth
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna caldeyra de trager agoa, iten hua caldeyra de sobre do lar, iten dous caldeyros de mao

     item, a bucket for carrying water; item a cauldron for hanging over the hearth; item two hand cauldrons

4. A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome

Synonyms

• (home): casa, fogar
• (fireside): lareira
• (hearth): ástrago, larega, sollo

Derived terms

• larada
• lareira (“fireplace”)
• larengo (“piglet”)
• lariño (“nest”) (snug residence)

References

• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Alternative forms

• lars

Etymology

Probably from Etruscan ???????????? (lar), ???????????????? (lars), or ???????????????? (lar?, “lord”), though it could possibly be from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“eager”), cognate with lascivus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?r/, [??ä?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lar/, [l?r]

Noun

l?r m (genitive laris); third declension

1. the protective spirit of a place, particularly a household
2. home, household

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• Lar?s

Descendants

References

• Lar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lar in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

lar

1. Alternative form of lore

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lar

1. present tense of la

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lar

1. present tense of la

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?ra, Dutch leer, Old High German l?ra (German Lehre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??r/

Noun

l?r f (nominative plural l?re)

1. teaching, learning, education
2. lesson
3. teaching, doctrine
4. advice, counsel

Declension

Derived terms

• b?cl?r
• misl?r

Related terms

• l?ran

Descendants

• Middle English: lore, lare, lar
  • Scots: lare, lair
  • English: lore

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin larem (“guardian spirit”), from Etruscan ???????????? (lar), ???????????????? (lars), or ???????????????? (lar?, “lord”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /la?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /la?/
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /la?/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. (endearing) home (place or building where one dwells)

   Synonym: casa

Related terms

• lareira

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?r, l?rem, in its current form most likely a learned borrowing. A popular or inherited form also existed, referring to the irons in a hearth on which vats were hung to heat water or make stews. The word may ultimately be of Etruscan origin.

Noun

lar m (plural lares)

1. hearth

   Synonym: hogar

See also

• casa f

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lárr, cognate with Finnish laari, Russian ???? (lar?), of unknown origin. Doublet of laar.

Noun

lar

1. Box.

Derived terms

• vealar

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lár, from Proto-Germanic *lahwaz.

Noun

lar

1. Thigh.

English

Verb

larf (third-person singular simple present larfs, present participle larfin', simple past and past participle larfed)

1. (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [19th century to the present]
   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, chapter 31

     The neighbours described me as "a sorrowful lookin' delicate creetur', that couldn't larf to save her life" […]

Noun

larf (plural larfs)

1. (chiefly Cockney) Pronunciation spelling of laugh. [20th century to the present]

References

• “larf” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd edition; 1989]

Anagrams

• farl

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?rf/
• Hyphenation: larf
• Rhymes: -?rf

Noun

larf f (plural larven, diminutive larfje n)

1. Alternative form of larve.