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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *rāros, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁rós, from *h₁reh₁- (“to separate”) (though Schrijver and de Vaan are skeptical). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum, comparative rārior, superlative rārissimus, adverb rārō or rārē); first/second-declension adjective
- scattered, far apart
- seldom, few
- rare, uncommon
- thin, loose
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- in open order: raris ordinibus
- to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
- “rarus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514