rarus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *er(e)-, *rē- (“friable, thin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.rus/, [ˈraː.rʊs]

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Adjective

rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum); first/second declension (comparative rarior, superlative rarissimus)

1. scattered, far apart
2. seldom, few
3. rare, uncommon
4. thin, loose

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	rārus	rāra	rārum		rārī	rārae	rāra
genitive	rārī	rārae	rārī		rārōrum	rārārum	rārōrum
dative	rārō		rārō		rārīs
accusative	rārum	rāram	rārum		rārōs	rārās	rāra
ablative	rārō	rārā	rārō		rārīs
vocative	rāre	rāra	rārum		rārī	rārae	rāra

• comparative: rārior, superlative: rārissimus

Derived terms

• rārē
• rārēfaciō
• rārenter
• rārēscō
• rāripilus

• rāritās
• rāriter
• rāritūdō
• rārō

Descendants

• Albanian: rrallë
• Aromanian: rar
• Asturian: ralu, raru
• Catalan: rar
• Danish: rar
• Middle Dutch: raer
  • Dutch: raar
• English: rare
• Faroese: rárur
• French: rare
• Friulian: râr
• Galician: raro

• German: rar
• Italian: raro
• Norwegian: rar
• Portuguese: ralo, raro
• Romanian: rar
• Romansh: rar, rer
• Sardinian: raru
• Sicilian: raru
• Spanish: ralo, raro
• Swedish: rar
• Venetian: raro

References

• rarus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rarus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rarus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
    
  • in open order: raris ordinibus
    
  • to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
    
• rarus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[2]