varius

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

varius

1. plural of variu

• IPA^(key): /vaˈrius/

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• Rhymes: -ius
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧us

varius

1. conditional of varii

Traditionally derived from vārus (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). De Vaan finds this connection somewhat unconvincing semantically, and hesitantly prefers a derivation from a Proto-Italic *wasios (which would have no certain cognates outside of Italic), linking the word to vafer (“clever”).^[1]

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

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

1. (chiefly in the plural) diverse, different, various, varied
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, 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

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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