VARIVS

Where it lives

• Controversiae 16 · 2.43/10k
• Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
• Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.7.16
• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 4.8
• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.2.9
• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.6.23
• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.1.26
• VARIVS Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.5.14

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

• Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uarius (scan p. 737; entry #12322).
• Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. varius (scan p. 1642; entry #3152). Root candidates: *va-, *uá-.