FromLatinvēritās.
IPA(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/
veritas (countable anduncountable,pluralveritates)
- Truth, particularly of atranscendent character.
2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, inNew York Times[1]:Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexualveritas.
Fromvērus(“true; real”,adjective) +-tās(suffix forming an abstract noun).
vēritās f (genitivevēritātis);third declension
- truth,truthfulness,verity
- (Can wedate this quote?), Iohannes 8:32
Vēritās vōs līberābit.- Thetruth will set you free.
- the trueor realnature,reality,real life
- Used in the abstract, comparevērum.
Third-declension noun.
Proverbs with the word “veritas”
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Middle Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
veritās
- accusativefeminineplural ofveritus
- “veritas”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “veritas”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "veritas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- veritas inGaffiot, 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 veritatemdicere
- 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):veritatemimitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
- (ambiguous) veracity:veritas
- (ambiguous) in everything nature defies imitation:in omni re vincit imitationem veritas