verax

Latin

Alternative forms

• vērāgus (8th c. France)

Etymology

From vērus (“true”) +‎ -āx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.raːks/, [ˈu̯eːräːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.raks/, [ˈvɛːräks]

Adjective

vērāx (genitive vērācis, adverb vērāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. truthful
2. speaking the truth

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	vērāx			vērācēs	vērācia
Genitive	vērācis			vērācium
Dative	vērācī			vērācibus
Accusative	vērācem	vērāx		vērācēs	vērācia
Ablative	vērācī			vērācibus
Vocative	vērāx			vērācēs	vērācia

Descendants

• Inherited (via the late variant vērāgus):
  • Franco-Provençal: veré
  • Old French: verai (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: veraç
  • → English: veracious
  • → French: vérace
  • → Italian: verace
  • → Portuguese: veraz
  • → Sicilian: viraci
  • → Spanish: veraz

References

• “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• verax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “verax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray