varius

See also: Varius

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɾiws]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɾiws]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈɾiws]

Noun

varius

1. plural of variu

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vaˈrius]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ius
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧us

Verb

varius

1. conditional of varii

Latin

Etymology

Traditionally derived from vārus (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). De Vaan finds this connection somewhat unconvincing semantically, and hesitantly prefers a derivation from a Proto-Italic *wasios (which would have no certain cognates outside of Italic), linking the word to vafer (“clever”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.ri.us/, [ˈu̯äriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ri.us/, [ˈväːrius]

Adjective

varius (feminine varia, neuter varium); first/second-declension adjective

1. diverse, different, various, variegated, varied

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	varius	varia	varium		variī	variae	varia
genitive	variī	variae	variī		variōrum	variārum	variōrum
dative	variō	variae	variō		variīs
accusative	varium	variam	varium		variōs	variās	varia
ablative	variō	variā	variō		variīs
vocative	varie	varia	varium		variī	variae	varia

Derived terms

• variegō
• varietās
• variō
• variola

 

Descendants

• Catalan: vair, vaire, → vari
• → English: various, varia lectio
• Old French: vair
  • French: vair
  • → Middle English: veir, feir, vair, vaire, veire, ver, voir, ware
    • English: vair
    • Scots: vair (obsolete)
    • Yola: vier, wyer, vierd
  • → Irish: véir
• Italian: vaio, vario
• Old Galician-Portuguese: veiro
  • Galician: veiro
  • Portuguese: veiro, → vário, vários
• Spanish: vero, → vario
• Romanian: vare, → variu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *variō
  • French: vairon
  • Italian: vairone
    • → English: vairone

References

• “varius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• varius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the changes and chances of this life: ancipites et varii casus
    
  • to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to experience the vicissitudes of fortune; to have a chequered career: varia fortuna uti
    
• “varius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray