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Latin
Etymology
From Vārus (agnomen and cognomen) + -ius (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix) or directly from vārus (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”) + -ius. Compare Valgus and Valgius.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Varius m sg (genitive Variī or Varī); second declension
- a nomen (nomen gentile), a family name.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Varius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Varius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.