Lars

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.

proper noun

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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.

Etymology

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.

proper noun

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Variant of LaresAlternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities.
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.

Etymology

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

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Lars · A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.

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