lares
Portuguese, noun
lares is spelled L-A-R-E-S (5 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,843rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lares is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plural of lar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cadeia de ferro sobre o lume da lareira para dependurar a caldeira”.
What does lares mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of lar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cadeia de ferro sobre o lume da lareira para dependurar a caldeira
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is lares in Portuguese?
lares appears 5.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).