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
• Syllabification: va‧ri‧us

Verb

varius

1. conditional of varii

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. De Vaan tentatively suggests it may go back to Proto-Italic *wasios, sharing a root *was- with vafer (“clever”); this etymology is also uncertain and the root lacks cognates outside of Italic. De Vaan also considers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to let, leave”) (the root of vārus, vānus, vāstus) but finds this unconvincing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ri.us]

Adjective

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

1. (chiefly in the plural) diverse, different, various, varied
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgics 2.519:

     Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
     glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
     et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
     mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       Winter is come: in olive-mills they bruise
       The Sicyonian berry; acorn-cheered
       The swine troop homeward; woods their arbutes yield;
       So, various fruit sheds Autumn, and high up
       On sunny rocks the mellowing vintage bakes.

2. manifold, changing, variable, complex
3. (of a person)
   1. versatile
   2. fickle
4. (of colors) motley, mottled, variegated

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
• 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, veyro
  • Galician: veiro
  • Portuguese: veiro
• Spanish: vero, → vario
• Romanian: vare, → variu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *variō
  • French: vairon
  • Italian: vairone
    • → English: vairone
• → English: various, varia lectio
• → Portuguese: vário

Further reading

• “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, 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