Varus

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Etymology

From Latin Varus.

Proper noun

Varus

  1. a Roman cognomen

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Latin

Etymology 1

The River Var

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the river Avara.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension

  1. Var (a river in Gallia Narbonensis), which flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near Nicaea
Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Vārus
genitive Vārī
dative Vārō
accusative Vārum
ablative Vārō
vocative Vāre
Derived terms
  • French: Var
  • Italian: Varo

Etymology 2

From vārus (“bent inwards; knock-kneed”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension

  1. Varus, a cognomen used by the gentes Quinctilia, Alfena, Luria, and others
    Publius Quinctilius Varus
     
Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Vārus
genitive Vārī
dative Vārō
accusative Vārum
ablative Vārō
vocative Vāre
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • Varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Vārus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Varus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Varus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise..., Errance, 2003, p. 301.
  • George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.
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