verum

Icelandic

Noun

verum

  1. indefinite dative plural of vera

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.rum/, [ˈweː.rũ]

Etymology 1

Adverbial accusative of vērus (“true”).

Adverb

vērum (not comparable)

  1. truly; even so
  2. but; yet; however
  3. still

Etymology 2

Nominalization of the neuter of vērus (“true”).

Noun

vērum n (genitive vērī); second declension

  1. reality, fact
Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vērum vēra
genitive vērī vērōrum
dative vērō vērīs
accusative vērum vēra
ablative vērō vērīs
vocative vērum vēra

Descendants

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Adjective

vērum

  1. inflection of vērus:
    1. nominative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular
    3. accusative neuter singular
    4. vocative neuter singular

Etymology 4

From vēr (“spring”)

Noun

vērum n

  1. genitive plural of vēr

References

  • verum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • verum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • verum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • verum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) my dream is coming true: somnium verum evādit (Div. 2. 53. 108)
    • (ambiguous) to speak the truth, admit the truth: verum dicere, profiteri
    • (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
    • (ambiguous) to make a copy true to nature: aliquid ad verum exprimere
    • (ambiguous) but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
    • (ambiguous) to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus
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