varus

From Latin varus.

varus (usually uncountable, plural vari)

1. A deformity in which the foot is turned inward.
2. Acne.

• vary
• prevaricate

• urvas

vara +‎ -us

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑrus/, [ˈʋɑrus̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrus
• Syllabification^(key): va‧rus

varus

1. (archaic) equipment, armament, accessory
2. (heraldry, in the plural) armed (horns, teeth, beaks etc. of an animal, especially when coloured in a different tincture from the animal itself)

   varukset siniset ― armed azure

• (equipment, accessory): varuste

• varusmies (“conscript”)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“separate”). May be cognate with varius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.rus/, [ˈu̯äːrʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]

vārus (feminine vāra, neuter vārum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bent outwards
2. bandy, bow-legged

First/second-declension adjective.

• vāricus (“astraddle”)
• vāra (“forked branch, easel”)

• → Catalan: var
• → English: varus, varous
• → French: varus, vareux

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1108
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “varus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “varus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “varus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“highland, high”). Cognate with varix (“varicose vein”), verrūca (“wart”). Compare Proto-Germanic *wer(r)uz (“lip”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.rus/, [ˈu̯ärʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.rus/, [ˈväːrus]

varus m (genitive varī); second declension

1. eruption on the face, blotch, pimple

Second-declension noun.

• Galician: verro
• Spanish: barro
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vario, varionem
  • Catalan: viró

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1151
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “varus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• varus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• varus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “varus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “varus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “varus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From French varus.

varus n (uncountable)

1. varus