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Veritas

Ver′i-tas

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
véritas
. See
Verity
.]
The Bureau Veritas. See under
Bureau
.

Definition 2024


veritas

veritas

English

Noun

veritas (uncountable)

  1. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character
    • 2007, March 4, “Alexandra Jacobs”, in Campus Exposure:
      Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From verus + -itas

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.ri.taːs/, [ˈweː.rɪ.taːs]

Noun

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

  1. truth
    • Iohannes 8:32
      Veritas vos liberabit.
      The truth will set you free.

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vēritās vēritātēs
genitive vēritātis vēritātum
dative vēritātī vēritātibus
accusative vēritātem vēritātēs
ablative vēritāte vēritātibus
vocative vēritās vēritātēs

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

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)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “veritas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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