veritas

From Latin vēritās.

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

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veritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)

2. Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
   • 2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.

• variest, vastier

From vērus (“true; real”, adjective) +‎ -tās (suffix forming an abstract noun).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ri.taːs/, [ˈu̯eːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ri.tas/, [ˈvɛːrit̪äs]

vēritās f (genitive vēritātis); third declension

2. truth, truthfulness, verity
   • (Can we date this quote?), Iohannes 8:32

     Vēritās vōs līberābit.

     The truth will set you free.

3. the true or real nature, reality, real life

• Used in the abstract, compare vērum.

Third-declension noun.

• falsitās

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 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.
  • 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