varius

See also: Varius

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

From vārus (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	varius	varia	varium		variī	variae	varia
Genitive	variī	variae	variī		variōrum	variārum	variōrum
Dative	variō		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
• variola
• variō

 

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

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