Penates

[ puh-ney-teez, -nah- ]

/ pəˈneɪ tiz, -ˈnɑ- /

gods who watched over the home or community to which they belonged: originally, two deities of the storeroom.

Compare Lares.

Origin of Penates

1505–15; < Latin Penātēs, akin to penus stock of provisions

Thank the Lares and Penates that Howard Fast wrote Spartacus for similar reasons.

Erica Jong Defends Feminist Revolution |Erica Jong |March 27, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
This grinning little deity--the facsimile of an Indian idol--must express their idea of the Penates.

A Love Story |A Bushman
Golden masks decorated with stones were placed upon their faces, just as ancient families rendered homage to the Penates.

De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) |Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
We will set up our Lares and Penates in its very centerahem!

Three Little Women's Success |Gabrielle E. Jackson

That, says Hume, is the nearest approach to a fight for its penates he has ever seen a sarus make.

Glimpses of Indian Birds |Douglas Dewar
Had they the art of making images or other representations of them they would be perfect lares, penates, or household gods.

The History of Sumatra |William Marsden

penates

/ (pəˈnɑːtiːz) /

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