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Penates
[ puh-ney-teez, -nah- ]
plural noun
- gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.
penates
/ pəˈnɑːtiːz /
Word History and Origins
Origin of Penates1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Penates1
Example Sentences
The most prominent and revered of them all were the Lares and Penates.
Every Roman family had a Lar, who was the spirit of an ancestor, and several Penates, gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse.
There were also public Lares and Penates, who did for the city what the others did for the family.
Starting with the mid-19th-century former rectory in which he lives, he introduces us to a universe of fact, anecdote, history and whimsy spun out of the lares and penates around him.
The Penates are one of a growing number of mixed-status families that have been affected by the record number of deportations in recent years.
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