variorum
English
Etymology
From Latin variorum, genitive plural masculine of varius ‘various’, in the phrase editio cum notis variorum ‘edition with various notes’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛːɹɪˈɔːɹəm/
Noun
variorum (plural variorums or variora)
- 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
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