varius

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɾiws]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɾiws]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈɾiws]

varius

1. plural of variu

• IPA^(key): /vaˈrius/

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• Rhymes: -ius
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧us

varius

1. conditional of varii

Traditionally derived from vārus (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). De Vaan finds this connection somewhat unconvincing semantically, and hesitantly prefers a derivation from a Proto-Italic *wasios (which would have no certain cognates outside of Italic), linking the word to vafer (“clever”).^[1]

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

varius (feminine varia, neuter varium); first/second-declension adjective

1. diverse, different, various, variegated, varied

First/second-declension adjective.

• “varius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "varius", 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)
• varius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the changes and chances of this life: ancipites et varii casus
    
  • to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to experience the vicissitudes of fortune; to have a chequered career: varia fortuna uti
    
• “varius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray