Varus
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See also: varus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Varus
- a Roman cognomen
Translations
[edit]a Roman cognomen
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the river Avara.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.rus/, [ˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]
Proper noun
[edit]Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension
- Var (a river in Gallia Narbonensis), which flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near Nicaea
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From vārus (“bent inwards; knock-kneed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.rus/, [ˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]
Proper noun
[edit]Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- 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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