veritas
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EnglishEdit
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NounEdit
veritas (uncountable)
- Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
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2007, March 4, “Alexandra Jacobs”, in Campus Exposure[1]:
- Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension
- truth
- Iohannes 8:32
- Veritas vos liberabit.
- The truth will set you free.
- Veritas vos liberabit.
- Iohannes 8:32
DeclensionEdit
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
genitive | vēritātis | vēritātum |
dative | vēritātī | vēritātibus |
accusative | vēritātem | vēritātēs |
ablative | vēritāte | vēritātibus |
vocative | vēritās | vēritātēs |
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ParticipleEdit
veritās
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 1883–1887)
- veritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], 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
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)