penates

From Latin Penātēs, from penus (“inner part of house”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈnɑːtiːz/, /pɪˈneɪtiːz/

penates pl (plural only)

1. (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.

2. (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.

• lares and penates

• nepetas, pesante, septane

penātēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of penās

• “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