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

• variest

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.

Antonyms

• falsitās

Derived terms

• in vino veritas

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