Varus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Varus. === Proper noun === Varus a Roman cognomen ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === urvas == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the river Avara. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwaː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.rus] ==== Proper noun ==== Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension Var (a river in Gallia Narbonensis), which flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near Nicaea ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun, singular only. ===== Derived terms ===== French: Var English: Var Italian: Varo === Etymology 2 === From vārus (“bent inwards; knock-kneed”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwaː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.rus] ==== Proper noun ==== Vārus m sg (genitive Vārī); second declension Varus, a cognomen used by the gentes Quinctilia, Alfena, Luria, and others ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun, singular only. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: Varus Italian: Varo === References === “Varus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Vārus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Varus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Varus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise..., Errance, 2003, p. 301. George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.