verum
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
verum
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.rum/, [ˈu̯eːrʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.rum/, [ˈvɛːrum]
Etymology 1 edit
Adverbial accusative of vērus (“true”).
Adverb edit
vērum (not comparable)
Etymology 2 edit
Nominalization of the neuter of vērus (“true”).
Noun edit
vērum n (genitive vērī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vērum | vēra |
Genitive | vērī | vērōrum |
Dative | vērō | vērīs |
Accusative | vērum | vēra |
Ablative | vērō | vērīs |
Vocative | vērum | vēra |
Descendants edit
- ⇒ Romanian: adevăr
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
vērum
- inflection of vērus:
Etymology 4 edit
From vēr (“spring”).
Noun edit
vērum n
References edit
- “verum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verum 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)
- verum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) my dream is coming true: somnium verum evādit (Div. 2. 53. 108)
- (ambiguous) to speak the truth, admit the truth: verum dicere, profiteri
- (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
- (ambiguous) to make a copy true to nature: aliquid ad verum exprimere
- (ambiguous) but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
- (ambiguous) to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus
- (ambiguous) my dream is coming true: somnium verum evādit (Div. 2. 53. 108)
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Noun edit
verum