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varia means: Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).

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varia

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈvɛəɹi.ə/Sorted aairvStarts with VEnds with A0 cluesCommon crossword word

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Borrowed from Greek βαρεία (vareía).

“In Morton Smith’s writings we can see that he is trying to follow the grammatical rules, as his accent marks are always carefully placed, specially^([sic]) the oxia and varia with their right or left slant.”
“The remaining three diacritics, oxia ( ΄ ), varia ( ` ), and perispomeni ( ˜ ), are used in the text to indicate primary stress.”
“[T]he author thought of using the Greek small letter iota with psili and varia (ἲ) and ἵ small letter iota with psili and oxia which the author found as the only current fitting option for use here.”

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