veridicus

Latin

Etymology

From vērus (“true”) +‎ -dicus (“saying”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈri.di.kus/, [u̯eːˈrɪd̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈri.di.kus/, [veˈriːd̪ikus]

Adjective

vēridicus (feminine vēridica, neuter vēridicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. speaking or otherwise expressing the truth
2. veracious, truthful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	vēridicus	vēridica	vēridicum		vēridicī	vēridicae	vēridica
Genitive	vēridicī	vēridicae	vēridicī		vēridicōrum	vēridicārum	vēridicōrum
Dative	vēridicō		vēridicō		vēridicīs
Accusative	vēridicum	vēridicam	vēridicum		vēridicōs	vēridicās	vēridica
Ablative	vēridicō	vēridicā	vēridicō		vēridicīs
Vocative	vēridice	vēridica	vēridicum		vēridicī	vēridicae	vēridica

Descendants

• → Catalan: verídic (learned)

References

• “veridicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veridicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veridicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (1913/1918; reprinted Darmstadt 1998), vol. 2, column 3425 <http://www.zeno.org/nid/20002719797>.