different between vair vs vari

English

Etymology

From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

vair (countable and uncountable, plural vairs)

1. (archaic) A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 323:

     Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.

2. (heraldry) An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white).

Related terms

• countervair
• vairy
• varriated

Translations

See also

• ermine
• fur
• potent

Anagrams

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vari, vira

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vair n (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) vair (fur used in heraldry)

French

Etymology

From Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• Homophones: vaire, vaires, vairs, ver, vers, vert, verts, verre, verres
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

vair m (plural vairs)

1. (heraldry) vair

Further reading

• “vair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ravi, riva, vira, vrai

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French veeir, veoir, from Latin vide?, vid?re, cognate with French voir.

Verb

vair

1. To see

   Disez-mai don, v'ez-ti pas veü un jiene là tout à l'oure ?

   Please tell me, have you seen a young man there few minutes ago ?

Middle English

Noun

vair

1. Alternative form of veir

Old French

Etymology

From the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.

Adjective

vair m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vaire)

1. changeable; that may change
2. multi-colored; polychromatic
3. shining; brilliant

Declension

Noun

vair m (oblique plural vairs, nominative singular vairs, nominative plural vair)

1. vair (fur of a squirrel)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: veir
  • English: vair
• French: vair
• ? Irish: véir

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) vesair
• (Sursilvan) veser
• (Sutsilvan) vaser
• (Surmiran) veir
• (Puter) vzair
• (Vallader) verer

Etymology

From Latin vide?, vid?re.

Verb

vair

1. (Puter) to look
2. (Puter) to see

English

Etymology

Compare French vari.

Noun

vari (plural varis)

1. (archaic) The ring-tailed lemur.

Anagrams

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vair, vira

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Norse [script needed] (*warj?n). Cognates include Swedish värja, Danish værge and Finnish varjo.

Noun

vari (genitive varju, partitive varju)

1. shadow
2. shade

Declension

Finnish

Noun

vari

1. hot weather
2. (rare) shadow

Declension

Synonyms

• helle

Anagrams

• Arvi, ravi

Icelandic

Noun

vari

1. indefinite dative singular of var

Ido

Noun

vari

1. plural of varo: wares, commodities, goods; merchandize

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

varî (alternative spelling vari)

1. masculine plural of vario

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

varî m (alternative spelling vari)

1. plural of vario

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

vari m

1. plural of varo

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vari

1. inflection of varare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular present subjunctive
   5. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vari

1. inflection of variare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular present subjunctive
   5. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• riva, vira

Latin

Adjective

v?r?

1. inflection of v?rus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

References

• vari in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vari in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Latvian

Verb

vari

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of var?t
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of var?t

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Related to varr (“aware, wary”).

Noun

vari m

1. wariness

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *h?wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see the Latin river Avara.

Noun

vari m

1. the watery substance of the blood

References

• vari in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vari in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic?^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 231

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vari/

Adjective

vari

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vari (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of var

Verb

vari (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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

Swedish

Adverb

vari (not comparable)

1. wherein

Anagrams

• Ivar, riva, vira

Võro

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian vari, Finnish varjo.

Noun

vari (genitive var'o, partitive varjo)

1. shadow

Declension