varus

From Latin varus.

varus (usually uncountable, plural vari)

1. A deformity in which the foot is turned inward.
2. Acne.

• vary
• prevaricate

• urvas

vara +‎ -us

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑrus/, [ˈʋɑ̝rus̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrus
• Syllabification^(key): va‧rus
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧rus

varus

1. (archaic) equipment, armament, accessory
2. (heraldry, in the plural) armed (horns, teeth, beaks etc. of an animal, especially when coloured in a different tincture from the animal itself)

   varukset siniset ― armed azure

• (equipment, accessory): varuste

• “varus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

From Proto-Italic *wāros, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-ro-s, from *h₁weh₂- (“separate”), with sense development "separated" > "opened" > "with the legs opened" > "bent-in legs". May be cognate with varius (“variegated in color”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.rus]

vārus (feminine vāra, neuter vārum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bent in
2. knock-kneed
3. (figurative) different, diverse

First/second-declension adjective.

• (knock-kneed): valgus (bow-legged)

• → Catalan: var
• → English: varus, varous
• → French: varus, vareux
• → Italian: varo

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1108
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Italic *waros, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“highland, raised protrusion; high”). Cognate with varix (“varicose vein”), verrūca (“wart”), Proto-Germanic *wer(r)uz (“lip”), Tocharian B weru (“blister”), Lithuanian viras (“tapeworm larva; pimple”), and perhaps Middle Irish ferbb (“heat rash, pimple”).^[1]

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

varus m (genitive varī); second declension

2. pimple, pustule, particularly on the face

Second-declension noun.

• Galician: verro
• Spanish: barro
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vario, varionem
  • Catalan: viró

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1151
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French varus.

varus n (uncountable)

1. varus