in vino veritas

English

Etymology

From Latin in (“in”) + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum (“wine”) + vēritās (“truth”). Thus, “in wine there is truth”. First attested, as volgoque veritas iam attributa vino est, in the Naturalis Historia (XIV, 141) of Pliny the Elder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪn ˈviː.nəʊ vɛ.ɹɪˈtæs/

Proverb

in vino veritas

1. in wine, there is truth

Related terms

• in wine, there is truth

Translations

in wine, there is truth — see in wine, there is truth