veritas

English

Etymology

From Latin vēritās.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

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Noun

veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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
  • 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”

Descendants

Participle

veritās

  1. accusative feminine plural of veritus

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, 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
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