veritas
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
veritas (uncountable)
- Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From vērus (“true; real”, adjective) + -tās (suffix forming an abstract noun).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːrɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪äs]
Noun
vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension
- truth, truthfulness, verity
- Iohannes 8:32
- Vēritās vōs līberābit.
- The truth will set you free.
- Vēritās vōs līberābit.
- Iohannes 8:32
- the true or real nature, reality
Usage notes
- Used in the abstract, compare vērum.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
Genitive | vēritātis | vēritātum |
Dative | vēritātī | vēritātibus |
Accusative | vēritātem | vēritātēs |
Ablative | vēritāte | vēritātibus |
Vocative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
Antonyms
Derived terms
Proverbs with the word “veritas”
- in vino veritas (“in wine, there is truth”)
- veritas vincit (“truth prevails”)
Descendants
- Albanian: vërtetë
- Aragonese: verdat
- Asturian: verdá
- Catalan: veritat
- Corsican: verità
- English: verity, veritas
- Extremaduran: verdá
- Friulian: veretât
- Galician: verdade
- Italian: verità, vertà
- Ladino: verdad (בﬞירדאדﬞ)
- Leonese: verdá
- Ligurian: veitæ
- Maltese: verità
- Mirandese: berdade
- Norman: véthité (Jersey)
- Neapolitan: verità, veritade, verdate
- Occitan: vertat, veritat
- Old French: verité, verté
- French: vérité
- Piedmontese: vrità
- Portuguese: verdade
- Romansch: vardad, vardet, vardà
- Sicilian: virità
- Spanish: verdad
- Venetian: verità
Participle
(deprecated template usage) veritās
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
- 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[1], 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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- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
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