verus
LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros, from *weh₁- (“true”). See also Old English wǣr (“true, correct”), Dutch waar (“true”), German wahr (“true”), Icelandic alvöru (“earnest”), Proto-Slavic *vě̀ra (“faith/belief”).
Alternative formsEdit
- bērus
- uērus (typographic)
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.rus/, [ˈweː.ɾʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.rus/, [ˈvɛː.rus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
AdjectiveEdit
vērus (feminine vēra, neuter vērum, comparative vērior, superlative vērissimus, adverb vērē or vērō); first/second-declension adjective
- true, real, actual (conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct)
- true, genuine (not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated)
- proper, suitable (acceptable to or fitting for the purpose or circumstances)
- right, just (complying with justice, correctness or reason)
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | vērus | vēra | vērum | vērī | vērae | vēra | |
Genitive | vērī | vērae | vērī | vērōrum | vērārum | vērōrum | |
Dative | vērō | vērō | vērīs | ||||
Accusative | vērum | vēram | vērum | vērōs | vērās | vēra | |
Ablative | vērō | vērā | vērō | vērīs | |||
Vocative | vēre | vēra | vērum | vērī | vērae | vēra |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Aromanian: ver
- Catalan: ver
- English: very, verify
- Esperanto: vero
- Friulian: vêr
- Galician: veriño
- Ido: vera
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected form of verū.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
verūs
ReferencesEdit
- verus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- verus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
- (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 averse to truth: a vero aversum esse (Catil. 3. 1. 29)
- (ambiguous) love of truth: veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas
- (ambiguous) zealous pursuit of truth: veri inquisitio atque investigatio
- (ambiguous) to be led away from the truth: a vero abduci
- (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
- (ambiguous) to be probable: a vero non abhorrere
- (ambiguous) to be probable: veri simile esse
- (ambiguous) to distinguish true and false: vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare
- (ambiguous) to confuse true with false: vera cum falsis confundere
- (ambiguous) in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)
- (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) nominally; really: verbo, nomine; re, re quidem vera
- (ambiguous) to tell lies: falsa (pro veris) dicere
- (ambiguous) a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
- (ambiguous) without wishing to boast, yet..: quod vere praedicare possum
- (ambiguous) to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus
- (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
- verus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray