varie Latin · revision 31662

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la varius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwa.ri.eː], [ˈwa.ri.ɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvaː.ri.e], [ˈvaː.ri.e]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''variē''' (adverb)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the adverb of [[varius|t=varied, diverse]], formed with [[m|la|-ē]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no sure etymology for ⟨varius⟩: a preform [[itc-pro|*wasios]], connecting it with [[vafer|t=sly]], is speculative, and a derivation from [[ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-|alt=*h₁uh₂-|t=to let, leave]] is not convincing in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest examples are from Cicero, who asks how variously and shamelessly a man had plundered.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “in various ways, variously”, and of a group “severally, each differently”;^(OLD 2012) Cicero has words that arise from one root and are varied in different ways, and a decree passed “not with differing votes but almost unanimously”.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is “in a varied style”, and it is used of things of many colours, as Pliny's stone that gleams variously against the sun.^(OLD 2012) Later it is also “changeably, with shifting fortunes”: the author of the ''Bellum Alexandrinum'' writes that the fight was fierce and its fortunes changing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of things done in many ways and of a varied style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of changing colours.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With varied or changing [[m|en|colour|alt=colours]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With a varied appearance; in rhetoric, in a varied style.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In different ways, [[m|en|variously]]; in different degrees; severally, with differing opinions.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Changeably, with shifting fortunes; inconsistently.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}