varietas

Latin

Etymology

From varius (“diverse, various”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈri.e.taːs/, [u̯äˈriɛt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈri.e.tas/, [väˈriːet̪äs]

Noun

varietās f (genitive varietātis); third declension

1. difference, diversity, variety

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	varietās	varietātēs
Genitive	varietātis	varietātum
Dative	varietātī	varietātibus
Accusative	varietātem	varietātēs
Ablative	varietāte	varietātibus
Vocative	varietās	varietātēs

Related terms

• variābilis
• varianter
• variānus
• variātim
• variātiō

• variātus
• variē
• variegō
• variō
• varius

Descendants

• Catalan: varietat
• English: variety
• French: variété

• Italian: varietà
• Portuguese: variedade
• Spanish: variedad

References

• “varietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varietas 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)
• varietas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • variable climate: caeli varietas