veritas

English

Etymology

From Latin vēritās.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

• • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)

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

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

See also

• hebraica veritas

 

Anagrams

• variest, vastier

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪äs]

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.

	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

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: verità
  • Italian: verità, vertà
  • Neapolitan: verità, veritade, verdate
  • Sicilian: virità
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: veretât
  • Ligurian: veitæ
  • Piedmontese: vrità
  • Romansch: vardad, vardet, vardà, verdad
  • Venetan: verità
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: vertet, verté
• Middle Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vertá
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: verdat
  • Old Catalan: verdat
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: verdat, verdad
    • Aragonese: verdat
  • Asturian: verdá
  • Extremaduran: verdá
  • Galician: verdade
  • Ladino: verdad (בﬞירדאדﬞ)
  • Leonese: verdá
  • Mirandese: berdade
  • Old Spanish: verdat
    • Spanish: verdad
  • Portuguese: verdade
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: vërtetë
  • → Catalan: veritat
  • → English: veritas
  • → Maltese: verità
  • → Occitan: veritat
  • → Old French: verité
    • Middle French: verité
      • French: vérité
    • Norman: véthité (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: verite
      • English: verity
  • → Romanian: veritate

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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