Definitions for Penates

Penates Pe·na·tes

Spelling: [puh-ney-teez, -nah-]
IPA: /pəˈneɪ tiz, -ˈnɑ-/

Penates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in Penates (aeenpst).

Definitions for Penates

plural noun

  1. gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.

Origin of Penates

1505-15; Latin Penātēs, akin to penus stock of provisions

Examples for Penates

The Penates of the city were above all the emperor and his family.

Every master of a family was the priest to the Penates of his own house.

Hamersley recognises them as part of the Penates of his late host.

Hence, his appeal to the female Penates took this constricted form.

These Penates were supposed to have been the gods brought from Troy by neas.

We will set up our Lares and Penates in its very centerahem!

Thank the Lares and Penates that Howard Fast wrote Spartacus for similar reasons.

But here in this room you are my Lares and Penates—you are my Love.

As for the Penates, they presided over the houses and domestic affairs.

The Penates, Mr. Warde Fowler tells us, were the spirits of the foods.

Word Value for Penates
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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