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var⋅i⋅o⋅rum

  [vair-ee-awr-uhm, -ohr-]
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–adjective
1. containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
2. containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics: a variorum text of Cicero.
–noun
3. a variorum edition or text.
Origin:
1720–30; short for L ēditiō cum notīs variōrum edition with the notes of various persons
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var·i·o·rum   (vâr'ē-ôr'əm, -ōr'-, vār'-)   
n.  

  1. An edition of the works of an author with notes by various scholars or editors.

  2. An edition containing various versions of a text.

adj.  Of or relating to a variorum edition or text.

[From Latin (ēditiō cum notīs) variōrum, (edition with the notes) of various persons, genitive pl. of varius, various.]
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