verax

== Latin == === Alternative forms === vērāgus (8th c. France) === Etymology === From vērus (“true”) + -āx. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.raːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.raks] === Adjective === vērāx (genitive vērācis, adverb vērāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective truthful speaking the truth ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === vērāx m (genitive vērācis); third declension truthteller ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Antonyms === mendāx === References === “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "verax", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “verax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “verax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray