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Webster 1913 Edition


Variorum


Vaˊri-o′rum

,
Adj.
[L., abbrev. fr.
cum notis variorum
with notes of various persons.]
Containing notes by different persons; – applied to a publication;
as, a
variorum
edition of a book
.

Definition 2024


variorum

variorum

English

Noun

variorum (plural variorums or variora)

  1. An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
    • 2007: Johnson set out to produce a variorum, compiling and summarising the history of Shakespearean emendation and annotation — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, London Review of Books 29:9, p. 5

Latin

Adjective

variōrum

  1. genitive masculine plural of varius
  2. genitive neuter plural of varius