veritas

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vēritās. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/ === Noun === veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates) Truth, particularly of a transcendent character. === See also === === Anagrams === variest, vastier == Latin == === Etymology === From vērus (“true; real”, adjective) + -tās (suffix forming an abstract noun). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.rɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.ri.tas] === Noun === vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension truth, truthfulness, verity (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32 the true or real nature, reality, real life ==== Usage notes ==== Used in the abstract, compare vērum. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Antonyms ==== falsitās ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.