The story
Latin: variae (feminine plural form of varius, “different”) + lectiōnēs (“readings”, plural form of lectiō, “a reading”) = “different readings”
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Latin: variae (feminine plural form of varius, “different”) + lectiōnēs (“readings”, plural form of lectiō, “a reading”) = “different readings”
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.