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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

English

Alternative forms

• variëty (rare)

Etymology

From Middle French varieté, from Latin variet?s (“difference, diversity”), from varius (“different, various”); see various. Displaced native Old English misl?cnes.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?-r???-t?, IPA^(key): /v???a?.?.ti/
• Rhymes: -a??ti
• Hyphenation: va?ri?e?ty

Noun

variety (countable and uncountable, plural varieties)

1. The quality of being varied; diversity.

   Antonym: sameness

2. A specific variation of something.
3. A number of different things.

   Synonyms: array, assortment

4. A state of constant change.
5. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species (infraspecific), either below subspecies (subspecific) or ranked comparably therewith.
6. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
7. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
8. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
9. (algebra, universal algebra) An equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
10. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic variety.
11. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
12. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.

Synonyms

• (quality of being varied): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity
• (algebraic geometry): algebraic variety
• (universal algebra): equational class, equational variety, variety of algebras

Hyponyms

• (specific variation of something): cultivar

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• species
• (cybernetics: logarithm): information entropy

Further reading

• variety in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• variety in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.