varietas Latin · revision 4204

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pacuvius|origins=la varius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [waˈri.ɛ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [vaˈriː.e.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''varietās''' ''f'' (genitive varietātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|varius|-tās|t1=varied, many-coloured]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates its first use to Pacuvius, 220–130 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero defines it as a Latin word used properly of different colours and then carried over to many different things.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was variety of colour, as of flowers in Cicero or skins in Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It then meant variety of forms and elements, as Varro's delight in variety of clothing, and diversity of kinds, as in many different lawsuits.^(OLD 2012) It also meant changeableness or vicissitude, of fortune or a war, and difference of opinion.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it could mean an illness and a quarrel, and in British sources variety of decoration and a squirrel fur.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010) English ''variety'' is recorded in the 1540s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro speaks of delight in variety of clothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero defines the word.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1432 – British Latin uses it of a squirrel fur.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''variety'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Variety of colours.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|variety]], diversity of forms or elements.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Difference, diversity of kinds.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Changeableness, inconstancy, [[m|en|vicissitude]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # Difference of opinion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Illness; a quarrel.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[varius]]

+ * [[en|variety]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}