varia

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).

   “The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.”

   “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.”