rarus

From Proto-Italic *rāros, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁rós, from *h₁reh₁- (“to separate”) (though Schrijver and de Vaan are skeptical). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.rus/, [ˈräːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.rus/, [ˈräːrus]

rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum, comparative rārior, superlative rārissimus, adverb rārō or rārē); first/second-declension adjective

1. scattered, far apart
2. seldom, few
3. rare, uncommon
4. thin, loose

First/second-declension adjective.

• “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
    
  • in open order: raris ordinibus
    
  • to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
    
• “rarus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514