# veritas
## English
### Etymology

From Latin vēritās.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)
* Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
** 2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times‎: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: /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːrɪt̪äːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪äs]

### Noun

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension
* truth, truthfulness, verity
** (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32
    Vēritās vōs līberābit.The truth will set you free.
* the true or real nature, reality, real life

#### Usage notes

* Used in the abstract, compare vērum.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Antonyms

* falsitās

#### Derived terms

* 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
* 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, 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