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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin varietās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ri.ˈe.tas/
- Rhymes: -tas
- Hyphenation: va‧ri‧e‧tas
Noun
varietas (plural varietas-varietas, first-person possessive varietasku, second-person possessive varietasmu, third-person possessive varietasnya)
- variety:
- a deviation or difference.
- (biology) cultivar: an animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species.
- Synonym: kultivar
- (botany, taxonomy) a rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From varius (“diverse, various”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
varietās f (genitive varietātis); third declension
- difference, diversity, variety
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “varietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “varietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- varietas 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)
- varietas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- variable climate: caeli varietas