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veritas

/ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

veritas noun: truth, particularly of a transcendent character.

Noun

veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)

  1. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
    • Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: Veritas

Veritas

  1. (Roman) The Goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn, and the mother of Virtus, also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter, or a creation of Prometheus; she is equivalent to Aletheia in Greek mythology

Forms of veritas

pluralveritates

Origin of veritas

Borrowed from Latin vēritās. Doublet of verity.

Borrowed from Latin vēritās (“truth; verity”).

Phrases with veritas

Questions about veritas

What does veritas mean?
Veritas means truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
What part of speech is veritas?
Veritas can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce veritas?
Veritas is pronounced /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/.
What is the plural of veritas?
The plural of veritas is veritates.

Words near veritas in the dictionary

  1. verists
  2. veritability
  3. veritable
  4. veritableness
  5. veritably
  6. veritas
  7. veritates
  8. Verite
  9. veritic
  10. veritically
  11. verities

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