verax

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From vērus (“true”) +‎ -āx.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vērāx (genitive vērācis, adverb vērāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. truthful
  2. speaking the truth

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative vērāx vērācēs vērācia
genitive vērācis vērācium
dative vērācī vērācibus
accusative vērācem vērāx vērācēs vērācia
ablative vērācī vērācibus
vocative vērāx vērācēs vērācia

Descendants

Inherited (via the late variant vērāgus):

  • Franco-Provençal: veré
  • Old French: verai (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed:

  • → Catalan: veraç
  • ⇒ English: veracious
  • → French: vérace
  • → Italian: verace
  • → Portuguese: veraz
  • → Sicilian: viraci
  • → Spanish: veraz

References

  • “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “verax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "verax", 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)
  • verax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “verax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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