lararium

American  

[luh-rair-ee-uhm] / ləˈrɛər i əm /

noun

• lararia
  plural

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lararia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of lararium

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lararium lararia

In the home they maintained a lararium, a shrine in which the spirits of ancestors were honored.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Armed with all these necessaries, he made his way back to the lararium without again crossing the peristylium where the soldiers were assembled.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

There were also horizontal spaces, little steps like those of a lararium, or shelves, on which were placed those objects that could stand upright.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

That little cross of boxwood twigs which she had left reminded him of her,—that cross, which he had placed in the lararium and revered involuntarily as something divine.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin

A tolerant Roman, like Alexander Severus, set statues of Apollonius, Christ, Abraham, Orpheus, "and others of that sort," in his lararium; and many today are inclined to make a similar religious combination.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin

His face was black, and resembled those waxen masks kept in lararia.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin