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veritas

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin vēritās.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

Noun

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veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)

  1. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
    • 2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times[1]:
      Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

See also

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From vērus (true; real, adjective) +‎ -tās (suffix forming an abstract noun).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

  1. truth, truthfulness, verity
    • (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32
      Vēritās vōs līberābit.
      The truth will set you free.
  2. the true or real nature, reality, real life

Usage notes

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  • Used in the abstract, compare vērum.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vēritās vēritātēs
genitive vēritātis vēritātum
dative vēritātī vēritātibus
accusative vēritātem vēritātēs
ablative vēritāte vēritātibus
vocative vēritās vēritātēs

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Proverbs with the word “veritas”

Descendants

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Participle

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veritās

  1. accusative feminine plural of veritus

References

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  • 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
  • veritas 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)
  • veritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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