variorum edition
- noun
- /ˌværiˈɔrəm ɪˈdɪʃən/
- Jargon
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edición variorum
- The latest variorum edition of Shakespeare's plays highlights differences among early manuscripts.
Examples
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A variorum edition often includes extensive footnotes and commentary from multiple editors.
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Scholars rely on the variorum edition to study how critical interpretations have evolved.
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The library has a rare variorum edition of Shakespeare's works.
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Have you seen the latest variorum editions of classic literature?
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A variorum edition often includes extensive footnotes and commentary from multiple editors.
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The latest variorum edition of Shakespeare's plays highlights differences among early manuscripts.
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Scholars rely on the variorum edition to study how critical interpretations have evolved.
Synonyms
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2.0
A different form of something, like a book or program
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2.5
A particular version of a book, newspaper, or magazine
An edition of a text that includes notes and versions from several scholars
A version of a text that comes from editing or copying, often of an old book
How Annotated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward modifier + noun combination: 'variorum' specifies a type of edition (one with notes/variants from multiple scholars) and 'edition' names the publication, so the overall meaning is directly compositional. Although 'variorum' is a specialized/Latin-derived term that many B1 learners may not know, if they do know the constituent meanings the combined sense is predictable and transparent.
Etymology
Variorum edition comes from the Latin word variorum, which means 'of various people', and it originally named a book that collected the notes of many editors. So a variorum edition is a single edition that shows different versions, comments, and small changes by different editors side by side.