vérité

vérité (uncountable)

1. Short for cinéma vérité.
   • 2005, Alan Rosenthal, John Corner, New Challenges for Documentary: Second Edition, page 158:

     [W]e've done some vérité, but we haven't structured our films totally around the use of vérité footage.

Inherited from Middle French verité, from Old French verité, borrowed from Latin vēritātem. An inherited/popular Old French form verté also once existed. Compare English verity.

• IPA^(key): /ve.ʁi.te/

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vérité f (plural vérités)

1. truth

• véritable
• vrai

• “vérité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• étrive, étrivé, éviter, rétive