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variæ lectiones

variæ lectiones is the plural of varia lectio.

Meaning of varia lectio

Noun

varia lectio (plural variae lectiones or (obsolete) variæ lectiones)

  1. (textual criticism and interpretation) Any one of the interpretations or readings of a given passage in a text which differ from copy to copy, from edition to edition, from manuscript to manuscript, or from translation to translation.

Questions about variæ lectiones

What is variæ lectiones the plural of?
Variæ lectiones is the plural of varia lectio.

Words near variæ lectiones in the dictionary

  1. varize
  2. varized
  3. varizellovirus
  4. varizes
  5. varizing
  6. variæ lectiones
  7. variëties
  8. variëty
  9. Varkaus
  10. Varkey
  11. Varkeys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: variæ lectiones (page history and authors); varia lectio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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