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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Lars en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.

Meanings

  1. A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
    • Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said. 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:

Lars en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities.
    alt of Lares
    • Dwarfish deities they had none. We are indeed told of the Lars, particularly the rural Lars, as answering to the Gothic Dwarfs; but no proofs are offered except the diminutive size of their statues. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234:

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