Lemma 1ueritas

nounfeminine

- truth, fact, accuracy; honesty, truthfulness, frankness; sincerity, - reality, that which is real; real life, actuality; true nature; correctness

Morphology1 analysis

accusative singularueritat + em · regular

Lewis & Short

key · ueritasFull entry

vērĭtas, ātis, f. [verus]

I.truth, truthfulness, verity; the true or real nature, reality (always abstract; verum, vera).

II.In gen.

III.In partic.

1.Reality, real life, esp. of the likeness of life in works of art: haec tria genera exornationum perraro sumenda sunt, cum in veritate dicemus, in reality, i. e. in the forum, not for practice merely: vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat, according to truth or reality.

2.Nature, the truth of nature.

3.Consule veritatem, i. e. the etymology, =.

4.Of character, truth, rectitude, integrity: si ad illam summam veritatem legitimum jus exegeris, Cael. ap.

5.Plur. (rare).