veritas

English

Etymology

From Latin vēritās.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

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Noun

veritas (uncountable)

2. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
   • 2007, March 4, “Alexandra Jacobs”, in Campus Exposure‎^[1]:

     Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

Anagrams

• variest, vastier

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːɾɪt̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪ɑs]

Noun

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

2. truth, truthfulness, verity
   • (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32

     Vēritās vōs līberābit.

     The truth will set you free.

3. 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

• falsitās

Derived terms

Proverbs with the word “veritas”

• in vino veritas (“in wine, there is truth”)
• veritas vincit (“truth prevails”)

 

Descendants

• Albanian: vërtetë
• Aragonese: verdat
• Asturian: verdá
• Catalan: veritat
• Corsican: verità
• English: verity, veritas
• Extremaduran: verdá
• Friulian: veretât
• Galician: verdade
• Italian: verità, vertà
• Ladino: verdad (בﬞירדאדﬞ)
• Leonese: verdá
• Ligurian: veitæ
• Maltese: verità
• Mirandese: berdade
• Norman: véthité (Jersey)
• Neapolitan: verità, veritade, verdate
• Occitan: vertat, veritat
• Old French: verité, verté
  • French: vérité
• Piedmontese: vrità
• Portuguese: verdade
• Romansch: vardad, vardet, vardà, verdad
• Sicilian: virità
• Old Spanish: verdat
  • Spanish: verdad
• Venetian: verità

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, 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