veritas

From Latin vēritās

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

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.

• variest, vastier

From vērus +‎ -tas

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.ri.taːs/, [ˈweː.rɪ.taːs]

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

1. truth
   • Iohannes 8:32

     Veritas vos liberabit.

     The truth will set you free.

Third declension.

• falsitās

• in vino veritas

veritās

1. accusative feminine plural of veritus

• 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)
• 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