in vino veritas

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

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Proverb

in vino veritas

  1. in wine, there is truth

Translations

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