Varus

See also: varus

English

Etymology

From Latin Varus.

Proper noun

Varus

1. a Roman cognomen

Translations

a Roman cognomen

• Armenian: Վարոս (Varos)
• French: Varus (fr)
• German: Varus
• Greek: Ούαρος (el) (Oúaros)

  Ancient: Οὔαρος (Oúaros)

• Italian: Varo (it)
• Latin: Varus
• Russian: Вар (ru) (Var)

Anagrams

• urvas

Latin

Etymology 1

The River Var

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the river Avara.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.rus/, [ˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]

Proper noun

Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension

1. Var (a river in Gallia Narbonensis), which flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near Nicaea

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vārus
Genitive	Vārī
Dative	Vārō
Accusative	Vārum
Ablative	Vārō
Vocative	Vāre

Derived terms

• French: Var
  • English: Var
• Italian: Varo

Etymology 2

From vārus (“bent inwards; knock-kneed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.rus/, [ˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]

Proper noun

Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension

1. Varus, a cognomen used by the gentes Quinctilia, Alfena, Luria, and others

   Publius Quinctilius Varus

    

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vārus
Genitive	Vārī
Dative	Vārō
Accusative	Vārum
Ablative	Vārō
Vocative	Vāre

Derived terms

• Vāriānus
• Vārius

 

Descendants

• English: Varus
• Italian: Varo

References

• Varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Vārus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Varus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Varus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise..., Errance, 2003, p. 301.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.