different between ars vs vars

English

Noun

ars

1. plural of ar

Anagrams

• ASR, RAS, RAs, RSA, Ras, SAR, Sar, Sar., asr, ras

Danish

Etymology 1

See ar (“scar”).

Noun

ars n

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Etymology 2

See ar (“are”).

Noun

ars c

1. indefinite genitive singular/plural of ar

Irish

Verb

ars

1. (dated) Alternative form of arsa used before the definite article an

Usage notes

In the modern standard language, arsa + an is written together as arsan; in older usage the spelling ars an may also be found.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *artis, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r?tís (“fitting”), from the root *h?er- (“to join”). Cognates include Avestan ????????????????????? (?r^?ta, “truth, right”), which in turn descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr?tás, and Ancient Greek ???? (árti, “just, exactly”). Related to arma.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ars/, [ärs?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ars/, [?rs]

Noun

ars f (genitive artis); third declension

1. art
2. skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• artista
• artifex
• iners
• sollers

Related terms

• arto
• arct?

Descendants

• Corsican: arte
• Extremaduran: arti
• Franco-Provençal: ârt
• Italian: arte
• Ligurian: arte
• Lombard: aart
• Neapolitan: arte
• Old French: art
  • Middle French: art
    • French: art
      • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
  • Norman: art
  • Walloon: årt
  • ? Middle English: art
    • English: art
      • Jamaican Creole: aat
      • Tok Pisin: at
      • ? Japanese: ??? (?to)
    • Scots: airt
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: arte
  • Mirandese: arte
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: art
  • Occitan: art
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: arte
  • Portuguese: arte
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew: ?????

    Latin: arte

  • Spanish: arte
    • ? Basque: arte
    • ? Hiligaynon: arte
    • ? Ilocano: arte
    • ? Tagalog: arte
    • ? Waray-Waray: arte
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: art
  • Ladin: ert
• Sardinian: arti
  • ? Maltese: arti
• Venetian: arte
• ? Albanian: art
• ? Aromanian: artâ
• ? Breton: arz
• ? Cornish: art
• ? Romanian: art?

References

• ars in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ars in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 55

Latvian

Verb

ars

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of art
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of art

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?érsos.

Alternative forms

• arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ars/, /??rs/

Noun

ars

1. arse, anus
2. bottom, buttocks

Descendants

• English: arse, ass
• Scots: ers, airse

References

• “?rs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French arz, artz (plural of art), from Latin art?s.

Noun

ars

1. (Early Middle English) plural of art (“(area of) knowledge”)

Old French

Verb

ars m (masculine plural ars, feminine singular arse, feminine plural arses)

1. inflection of ardeir:
   1. oblique/nominative masculine singular participle
   2. oblique/nominative masculine plural past participle

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• rass

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?orsos (“arse”)

Noun

ars m (genitive ars, plural arsar)

1. arse, anus

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: ars
• Faroese: arsur
• Old Swedish: ars
  • ? Swedish: arsel, arsle

References

ars in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arsaz.

Noun

ars m

1. the arse; the buttocks or anus

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ars
  • Dutch Low Saxon: ars, ors
  • German Low German: Aars
  • ? by rebracketing:
    • Dutch Low Saxon: nors, mors
    • German Low German: Maars, Moors, Narsch, Närsch, Närs

      Plautdietsch: Noasch

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ?rsus, past participle of ?rde?. Compare Italian arso, Aromanian arsu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ars/

Verb

ars

1. past participle of arde

Adjective

ars m or n (feminine singular ars?, masculine plural ar?i, feminine and neuter plural arse)

1. burnt
2. scorched, parched

Declension

Swedish

Noun

ars

1. indefinite genitive singular of ar
2. indefinite genitive plural of ar

Anagrams

• -sar, ras

English

Noun

vars

1. plural of var

Anagrams

• ARVs, VRSA, ravs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fars/

Adjective

vars (attributive varse, comparative varser, superlative varste)

1. fresh

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *varci. Cognate with Finnish varsi.

Noun

vars (genitive varre, partitive vart)

1. stalk
2. shaft

Inflection

Derived terms

• käsivars

Icelandic

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive singular of var

Latgalian

Noun

vars m

1. copper

Romanian

Verb

vars

1. first-person singular present indicative of v?rsa
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa

Swedish

Etymology 1

From an older interrogative adverb hvarest (“whereto, whither”), see varest, from Old Swedish hvaris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]
• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Adverb

vars

1. (dialectal, Northern Sweden) where

Usage notes

• Used both with motion and direction, where standard Swedish would use var and vart, respectively.

Etymology 2

Clipping of bevars, itself a contraction of (Gud) bevare oss (”may God save us”), from the present subjunctive of bevara (“to save, to keep”), and oss (“us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Interjection

vars

1. (colloquial) Added to an answering interjection to signify that the answer does not have full validity

Etymology 3

See main entry var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive plural of var
2. indefinite genitive singular of var

Etymology 4

• (relative pronoun) From Old Swedish hvars, genitive of hvar (“which, every”).
• (distributive pronoun) From a reanalysis of varsin, varsitt (“one each”) (from var +? sin, sitt) as consisting of vars + en, ett (“one”) and then expanded to further numerals, e.g. vars två (”two each”), standard Swedish två var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun, distributive pronoun) /v??rs/, [v???], [v???s]
• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun) /vars/, [va?]

Pronoun

vars

1. (relative pronoun) whose (of whom)
2. (distributive pronoun, dialectal, Scania) each

Usage notes

• Not used as an interrogative pronoun, in which case vems (singular) or vilkas (plural) is used.
• The use of vars with a plural referent was earlier proscribed in favour of vilkas, but is now accepted, e.g.:

References

• vars in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vars in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Vars. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 21 October 2013.

Anagrams

• arvs, sarv, svar