veritas
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Noun
[edit]veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)
- 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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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vērus (“true; real”, adjective) + -tās (suffix forming an abstract noun).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːrɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪äs]
Noun
[edit]vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension
- truth, truthfulness, verity
- (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32
- Vēritās vōs līberābit.
- The truth will set you free.
- (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32
- the true or real nature, reality, real life
Usage notes
[edit]- Used in the abstract, compare vērum.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
genitive | vēritātis | vēritātum |
dative | vēritātī | vēritātibus |
accusative | vēritātem | vēritātēs |
ablative | vēritāte | vēritātibus |
vocative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Proverbs with the word “veritas”
- in vino veritas (“in wine, there is truth”)
- veritas vincit (“truth prevails”)
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Middle Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: vertá
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
Participle
[edit]veritās
References
[edit]- “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
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
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