Varia

Of uncertain origin, but possibly a hydronym from a suffixed zero-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), similar to the river Avara. The town is close to the confluence of the Anio and Digentia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ri.a]

Varia f sg (genitive Variae); first declension

1. A town of the Sabines situated in the valley of the Anio, now Vicovaro

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Varia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Varia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.