"lares and penates" meaning in All languages combined

See lares and penates on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌlɛəɹiːz ənd pɪˈnɑːtiːz/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌlɛɹiz ənd pɪˈnɑtiz/ [General-American]
Etymology: A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|lares et penates}} Latin lares et penates Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} lares and penates pl (plural only)
  1. (Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms. Tags: Roman, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Roman mythology Synonyms (household deities): household deity
    Sense id: en-lares_and_penates-en-noun-52UKieVo Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 68 32 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 29 Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'household deities': 77 23
  2. (figuratively) One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household. Tags: figuratively, plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-lares_and_penates-en-noun-Bq2m4Tm1
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lares et penates"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lares et penates",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "lares and penates pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Roman mythology",
          "orig": "en:Roman mythology",
          "parents": [
            "Ancient Rome",
            "Mythology",
            "Ancient Africa",
            "Ancient Europe",
            "Ancient history",
            "Ancient Near East",
            "History of Italy",
            "Culture",
            "History of Africa",
            "History of Europe",
            "History",
            "Ancient Asia",
            "Italy",
            "Society",
            "Africa",
            "Europe",
            "All topics",
            "History of Asia",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Fundamental",
            "Asia",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction, page 87:",
          "text": "The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms."
      ],
      "id": "en-lares_and_penates-en-noun-52UKieVo",
      "links": [
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "household deities",
          "household deities"
        ],
        [
          "ancient",
          "ancient"
        ],
        [
          "Rome",
          "Rome"
        ],
        [
          "respectively",
          "respectively"
        ],
        [
          "overseeing",
          "overseeing"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ],
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ],
        [
          "storeroom",
          "storeroom"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "77 23",
          "sense": "household deities",
          "word": "household deity"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1775, Horace Walpole, letter",
          "text": "I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Anna Wells Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, page 111:",
          "text": "Dissenters came to South Carolina in the decade 1680-1690, some of them persons of means who might have brought with them their lares and penates.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods, The Magic Mountain, Vintage, published 1996, page 178:",
          "text": "“Please understand me now—if it were nothing more than muffled tones and scars on your Aeolus's bellows there, merely some calcified foreign matter, then I would send you packing to rejoin your lares and penates, and not worry one white more about you.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household."
      ],
      "id": "en-lares_and_penates-en-noun-Bq2m4Tm1",
      "links": [
        [
          "One",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "prized",
          "prized"
        ],
        [
          "possession",
          "possession"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ],
        [
          "protector",
          "protector"
        ],
        [
          "symbol",
          "symbol"
        ],
        [
          "household",
          "household"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɛəɹiːz ənd pɪˈnɑːtiːz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɛɹiz ənd pɪˈnɑtiz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lares and penates"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English calques",
    "English coordinated pairs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English pluralia tantum",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "lares et penates"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lares et penates",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "lares and penates pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Roman mythology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction, page 87:",
          "text": "The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "household deities",
          "household deities"
        ],
        [
          "ancient",
          "ancient"
        ],
        [
          "Rome",
          "Rome"
        ],
        [
          "respectively",
          "respectively"
        ],
        [
          "overseeing",
          "overseeing"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family"
        ],
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ],
        [
          "storeroom",
          "storeroom"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1775, Horace Walpole, letter",
          "text": "I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Anna Wells Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, page 111:",
          "text": "Dissenters came to South Carolina in the decade 1680-1690, some of them persons of means who might have brought with them their lares and penates.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods, The Magic Mountain, Vintage, published 1996, page 178:",
          "text": "“Please understand me now—if it were nothing more than muffled tones and scars on your Aeolus's bellows there, merely some calcified foreign matter, then I would send you packing to rejoin your lares and penates, and not worry one white more about you.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "One",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "prized",
          "prized"
        ],
        [
          "possession",
          "possession"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ],
        [
          "protector",
          "protector"
        ],
        [
          "symbol",
          "symbol"
        ],
        [
          "household",
          "household"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɛəɹiːz ənd pɪˈnɑːtiːz/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlɛɹiz ənd pɪˈnɑtiz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "household deities",
      "word": "household deity"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lares and penates"
}

Download raw JSONL data for lares and penates meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.