variety

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• Received-Pronunciation: və-rīʹĭ-tē
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• Received-Pronunciation: /vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/
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• General-American: /vəˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
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• General-American: /-ɾi/
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• rhymes with -aɪɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: V ER0 AY1 AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French varieté (“variety”) (modern French variété (“variety; genre, type”)) or directly from its etymon Latin varietās (“difference; diversity, variety”) + English -ty (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives); by surface analysis, various + -ety. Varietās is derived from varius (“different, diverse, various; variegated”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1weh2- (“to abandon; to give out; to leave”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being). The English word displaced the native Old English mislīcnes. Sense 1.3.2 (“total number of distinct states of a system; logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system”) was coined by the English psychiatrist William Ross Ashby (1903–1972) in his work An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956). Cognates * Galician variedade (“variety”) * Italian varietà (“difference; variety”) * Portuguese variedade (“variety”) * Spanish variedad (“breed; variety”)

122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِخْتِلَاف (iḵtilāf) — specific variation of something
• Bulgarian: сорт (sort) — specific variation of something
• Bulgarian: вид (vid) — specific variation of something
• Catalan: varietat — specific variation of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 變種 /变种 (biànzhǒng) — specific variation of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 品種 /品种 (pǐnzhǒng) — specific variation of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 变体 (biàntǐ) — specific variation of something
• Danish: forskellighed — specific variation of something
• Dutch: verscheidenheid — specific variation of something
• Finnish: laji — specific variation of something
• Finnish: muunnos — specific variation of something
• Finnish: tyyppi — specific variation of something
• French: variété — specific variation of something
• Galician: variedade — specific variation of something
• Georgian: მრავალფეროვნება (mravalperovneba) — specific variation of something
• Georgian: ნაირნაირობა (nairnairoba) — specific variation of something
• Georgian: სახეობა (saxeoba) — specific variation of something
• Georgian: სახესხვაობა (saxesxvaoba) — specific variation of something
• Georgian: სხვადასხვაობა (sxvadasxvaoba) — specific variation of something
• Georgian: სხვადასხვაგვარობა (sxvadasxvagvaroba) — specific variation of something
• German: Sorte — specific variation of something
• Hindi: प्रकार (prakār) — specific variation of something
• Hungarian: fajta — specific variation of something
• Hungarian: féle — specific variation of something
• Ingrian: sorttu — specific variation of something
• Irish: sórt — specific variation of something
• Italian: varietà — specific variation of something
• Khmer: ប្រភេទ (prɑpheit) — specific variation of something
• Latin: varietās — specific variation of something
• Northern Mansi: хурип (hurip) — specific variation of something
• Northern Mansi: аквсыр (akvsyr) — specific variation of something
• Northern Mansi: сыр (syr) — specific variation of something
• Mazanderani: جورb — specific variation of something
• Mongolian: зүйл (züjl) — specific variation of something
• Persian: اختلاف (extelâf) — specific variation of something
• Plautdietsch: Sort — specific variation of something
• Polish: odmiana — specific variation of something
• Polish: rodzaj — specific variation of something
• Portuguese: variedade — specific variation of something
• Romanian: varietate — specific variation of something
• Romanian: fel — specific variation of something
• Romanian: sort — specific variation of something
• Romanian: sortiment — specific variation of something
• Russian: разнови́дность (raznovídnostʹ) — specific variation of something
• Russian: сорт (sort) — specific variation of something
• Russian: вид (vid) — specific variation of something
• Scots: varietie — specific variation of something
• Scottish Gaelic: caochladh — specific variation of something
• Spanish: variedad — specific variation of something
• Tagalog: balaki — specific variation of something
• Ukrainian: різновид (riznovyd) — specific variation of something
• Finnish: varisto — in universal algebra: the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities
• Bulgarian: вид (vid) — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Catalan: varietat — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Czech: varieta — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Czech: odrůda — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Danish: varietet — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Finnish: muunnos — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• French: variété — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Galician: variedade — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Georgian: სახეობა (saxeoba) — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• German: Varietät — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Italian: varietà — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Norwegian Bokmål: varietet — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Norwegian Nynorsk: varietet — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Polish: odmiana — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Portuguese: variedade — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Romanian: varietate — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Russian: разнови́дность (raznovídnostʹ) — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Russian: вид (vid) — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Spanish: variedad — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Swedish: varietet — rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form
• Finnish: tilamäärä — total number of distinct states of a system
• Finnish: tilamäärän logaritmi — logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system
• Belarusian: моўная разнавіднасць (mównaja raznavidnascʹ) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Bulgarian: разновидност (raznovidnost) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Catalan: varietat — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Dutch: variëteit — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Finnish: kielimuoto — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Finnish: muoto — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• French: variété — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Galician: variedade — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Georgian: ენობრივი განსხვავება (enobrivi gansxvaveba) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• German: Varietät — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• German: Sprachform — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• German: Sprachvarietät — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Indonesian: varietas — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Indonesian: isolek — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Italian: varietà — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Latvian: valodas paveids — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Polish: forma języka — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Polish: forma mowy — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Polish: odmiana języka — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Polish: odmiana językowa — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Portuguese: variedade — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Russian: идиом — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Russian: форма языка — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Russian: форма существования языка (forma suščestvovanija jazyka) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Russian: языковая разновидность (jazykovaja raznovidnostʹ) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Russian: разновидность языка (raznovidnostʹ jazyka) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Serbo-Croatian: идѝо̄м — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Serbo-Croatian: idìōm — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Serbo-Croatian: jezični varijetet — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Serbo-Croatian: jezički varijetet — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Slovak: varieta jazyka — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Slovak: forma jazyka — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Slovak: jazyková varieta — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Spanish: variedad — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Ukrainian: форма існування мови (forma isnuvannja movy) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Ukrainian: форма мови — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Ukrainian: різновид мови (riznovyd movy) — specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level — see also isolect, lect
• Bulgarian: разнообра́зие (raznoobrázie) — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Danish: forskellighed — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Danish: mangfoldighed — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Esperanto: varieco — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Esperanto: diverseco — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Finnish: monimuotoisuus — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Finnish: moninaisuus — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Galician: diversidade — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Ancient Greek: ποικιλία (poikilía) — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Latvian: dažādība — quality of being varied — see also diversity
• Russian: разнообра́зие (raznoobrázije) — quality of being varied — see also diversity