veritas

English

Etymology

From Latin vēritās

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

Noun

veritas (uncountable)

1. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
   • 2007, March 4, “Alexandra Jacobs”, in Campus Exposure‎^[1]:

     Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

Anagrams

• variest, vastier

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Latin

Etymology

From vērus +‎ -tas

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.ri.taːs/, [ˈweː.rɪ.taːs]

Noun

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

1. truth
   • Iohannes 8:32

     Veritas vos liberabit.

     The truth will set you free.

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	vēritās	vēritātēs
genitive	vēritātis	vēritātum
dative	vēritātī	vēritātibus
accusative	vēritātem	vēritātēs
ablative	vēritāte	vēritātibus
vocative	vēritās	vēritātēs

Antonyms

• falsitās

Derived terms

• in vino veritas

Descendants

• Albanian: vërtetë
• Aragonese: verdat
• Asturian: verdá
• Catalan: veritat
• Corsican: verità
• English: verity, veritas
• French: vérité
• Friulian: veretât
• Galician: verdade
• Italian: verità, vertà
• Maltese: verità

• Mirandese: berdade
• Norman: véthité (Jersey)
• Neapolitan: verità, veritade, verdate
• Occitan: vertat, veritat
• Old French: verité, verté
• Portuguese: verdade
• Romansch: vardad, vardet, vardà
• Sicilian: virità
• Spanish: verdad
• Venetian: verità

Participle

veritās

1. accusative feminine plural of veritus

References

• veritas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veritas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “veritas”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• veritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary], Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
    
  • to be truthful in all one's statements: omnia ad veritatem dicere
    
  • truthful; veracious: veritatis amans, diligens, studiosus
    
  • to swerve from the truth: a veritate deflectere, desciscere
    
  • (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
    
  • (ambiguous) veracity: veritas
    
  • (ambiguous) in everything nature defies imitation: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas