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verum

verum

Icelandic

Noun

verum

  1. indefinite dative plural of vera

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.rum/, [ˈweː.rũ]

Etymology 1

From vērus (true)

Adverb

vērum (not comparable)

  1. truly; even so
  2. but; yet; however
  3. still

Adjective

vērum

  1. nominative neuter singular of vērus
  2. accusative masculine singular of vērus
  3. accusative neuter singular of vērus
  4. vocative neuter singular of vērus

Noun

vērum n (genitive vērī); second declension

  1. reality, fact
Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vērum vēra
genitive vērī vērōrum
dative vērō vērīs
accusative vērum vēra
ablative vērō vērīs
vocative vērum vēra

Descendants

Etymology 2

From vēr (spring)

Noun

vērum n

  1. genitive plural of vēr

References

  • verum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • verum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • VERUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “verum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (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 very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
    • (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) to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus