Definitions for lararium

lararium la·rar·i·um

Spelling: [luh-rair-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ləˈrɛər i əm/

Lararium is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in lararium (aailmrru).

Definitions for lararium

noun

  1. (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.

Origin of lararium

1700-10; Late Latin larārium; see Lares, -ary

Examples for lararium

In some of the Pompeian houses the lararium was represented by a niche only, containing the image of the lar.

Opening out from the peristylium is the lararium, or room of the household gods.

His eyes passed to the lararium unconsciously, and to the little cross which she left him before going.

Within it are erected an altar to, and statue of, the guardian angel, in fact the building had its lararium.

Undoubtedly we should recognize in this edifice the sanctuary of the Lares of the city, lararium publicum.

"In the lararium, O praefect," replied the soldier without hesitation.

This venereum contained a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium, or small marble niche in which the household god was enshrined.

These seem to indicate that this was the lararium of the house.

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