veritat

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan veritat~vertat, from Latin vēritātem. May owe the preservation or re-establishment of its /i/ to learned influence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ɾiˈtat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [və.ɾiˈtat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ve.ɾiˈtat]
• (Eastern, colloquial) IPA^(key): [bɾiˈtat]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

veritat f (plural veritats)

1. truth

   és veritat que… ― truth is…

   la veritat és que… ― in reality, …

References

• “veritat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “veritat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “veritat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• vertat

Etymology

In this form, possibly borrowed from Latin vēritās, vēritātem.

Noun

veritat f (oblique plural veritats, nominative singular veritat, nominative plural veritats)

1. truth