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- Latin · derived fromvariantia
- Latin · derived fromvariaunce
- Old French · derived fromvariance
- Middle English · inherited fromvariance
- English todayvariance
From Middle English variance, variaunce, equivalent to vary + -ance, from Old French variance or directly from Anglo-Latin variaunce, veriaunce, wariaunce; all from Latin variantia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.