Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

veritas

/ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

Syllables: ver-i-tas
IPA: /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.

Countable; Uncountable

name

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

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros Proto-Italic *wēros Latin vērus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin vēritāsbor. English veritas Borrowed from Latin vēritās. Doublet of verity.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: vēritās

Usage

Inflected Forms

veritates (plural)

Phrases

hebraica veritas

Frequently Paired Words

hebraica veritas

Questions

How do you pronounce veritas?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɛɹɪtɑːs/.
What does veritas mean?: Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
Where does veritas come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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