penates
Spanish, noun/peˈnates/
penates is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Roman guardian deities of the household” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does penates mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineRoman guardian deities of the household
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce penates?
- /peˈnates/
- [peˈna.t̪es]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is penates in Spanish?
penates appears about once in every 40 million words in written Spanish.
penates0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Spanishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).