Lara, David De

Lara, David De a Jewish writer of Portuguese descent, who died at Hamburg in 1674, is the author of, כתר כהונה, a Talmudico-Rabbinic lexicon (Hamburg, 1667): — ערדוד de Convenientia Vocabulorum Rabbinicorum (Amsterdam, 1638). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:222; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl. page 174 sq.; Perles, David Cohen de Lara's Rabbinisches Lexikon (Breslau, 1868). (B. P.)