vera causa
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vera (“true”) + causa (“cause”).
Noun
editvera causa
- The true or real cause of something.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 422:
- Max von Pettenkofer […] upheld a version of the miasmatic theory and denied the bacillus was the vera causa of cholera.