varia

See also: varía, variá, vária, varià, variâ, and väriä

English

Etymology

From Greek βαρεία (vareía).

Noun

varia

1. Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).
   • 2003, Richard Gillam, “The Greek Alphabet”, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II (Unicode in Depth: A Guided Tour of the Character Repertoire), chapter 7 (Scripts of Europe), page 240:

     The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.

   • [2009?], Venetia Anastasopoulou, Experts Report Handwriting Examinations, [Washington, D.C.]: [Biblical Archaeology], →OCLC, page 17:

     In Morton Smith’s writings we can see that he is trying to follow the grammatical rules, as his accent marks are always carefully placed, specially^[sic] the oxia and varia with their right or left slant.

   • 2010 August 12, Rey Romero, “A Greek transliteration of Judeo-Spanish: Notes on a poem from Trikala (1885)”, in Ianua: Revista Philologica Romanica, volume 10, Romania Minor, →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter 5 (Diacritics), page 102:

     The remaining three diacritics, oxia ( ΄ ), varia ( ` ), and perispomeni ( ˜ ), are used in the text to indicate primary stress.

   • 2023, Mahmud Mohammed Momoh, “Vowels and the Igala Language Resources”, in Rooweither Mabuya, Don Mthobela, Mmasibidi Setaka, Menno Van Zaanen, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), Dubrovnik: Association for Computational Linguistics, →DOI, section 2 (Vowels and Words in Igala Language), pages 109–110:

     [T]he author thought of using the Greek small letter iota with psili and varia (ἲ) and ἵ small letter iota with psili and oxia which the author found as the only current fitting option for use here.

See also

• varia lectio

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈɾi.a]

Verb

varia

1. inflection of variar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Esperanto

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈria/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧a

Adjective

varia (accusative singular varian, plural variaj, accusative plural variajn)

1. variable

Finnish

Noun

varia

1. partitive singular of vari

Anagrams

• raavi, ravia, vaari

French

Verb

varia

1. third-person singular past historic of varier

Galician

Verb

varia

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of variar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.rja/
• Rhymes: -arja
• Hyphenation: và‧ria

Adjective

varia

1. feminine singular of vario

Verb

varia

1. inflection of variare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• aravi, avari, avrai, varai

Latin

Etymology 1

Regularly declined forms of varius.

Pronunciation

• varia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.ri.a/, [ˈu̯äriä]
• varia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ri.a/, [ˈväːriä]
• variā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.ri.aː/, [ˈu̯äriäː]
• variā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ri.a/, [ˈväːriä]

Adjective

varia

1. inflection of varius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. vocative/nominative/accusative neuter plural

Adjective

variā

1. ablative feminine singular of varius

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of variō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.ri.aː/, [ˈu̯äriäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ri.a/, [ˈväːriä]

Verb

variā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of variō

References

• “varia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "varia", 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)
• “varia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin varia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.rja/
• Rhymes: -arja
• Syllabification: va‧ria

Noun

varia nvir pl

1. (literature) varia, miscellany (collection of diverse texts, thoughts, or notes collected in a publication)

   Synonym: miscellanea

Declension

Declension of varia

	plural
nominative	varia
genitive	variów
dative	variom
accusative	varia
instrumental	variami
locative	variach
vocative	varia

Further reading

• varia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈɾi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈɾi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈɾi.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈɾi.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈɾi.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈɾi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧a

Verb

varia

1. inflection of variar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Adjective

varia f sg

1. feminine singular of vario

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French varier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.riˈa/

Verb

a varia (third-person singular present variază, past participle variat) 1st conjugation

1. (intransitive) to vary, to differ

   Synonyms: diferi, se deosebi, se feluri

2. (transitive) to vary, to change, to alter

   Synonym: schimba

3. (intransitive) to range

   a varia de la ... la ... ― to range from ... to ...

Conjugation

    conjugation of varia (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a varia
gerund			variind
past participle			variat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	variez	variezi	variază	variem	variați	variază
	imperfect	variam	variai	varia	variam	variați	variau
	simple perfect	variai	variași	varie	variarăm	variarăți	variară
	pluperfect	variasem	variaseși	variase	variaserăm	variaserăți	variaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să variez	să variezi	să varieze	să variem	să variați	să varieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		variază			variați
	negative		nu varia			nu variați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾja/ [ˈba.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: va‧ria

Adjective

varia f sg

1. feminine singular of vario

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

varia (plurale tantum)

1. miscellaneous, various things

References

• varia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)