penates
See also: Penates and pénates
English
Etymology
From Latin Penātēs, from penus (“inner part of house”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈnɑːtiːz/, /pɪˈneɪtiːz/
Noun
penates pl (plural only)
- (Roman mythology) The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their Penates and Patronal Gods might be called forth by charms and incantations.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- (figuratively) Synonym of household deities in other contexts.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 101:
- ...and a china shepherd and shepherdess, clothed in "a green and yellow melancholy," were the penates of the mantel-piece.
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Derived terms
- lares and penates
Anagrams
- nepetas, pesante, septane
Latin
Noun
penātēs
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of penās
References
- “penates”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “penates”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “penates”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin