vero

From Latin vērus (“true”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvero/

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: ve‧ro

vero (accusative singular veron, plural veroj, accusative plural verojn)

1. truth

   Synonym: vereco

2. reality

   Synonyms: realeco, realaĵo, realo

From Proto-Finnic *vero,^[1] possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *werᴈ. Cognate to Karelian vero, and possibly Votic vero and Veps vero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋero/, [ˈʋe̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification^(key): ve‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): ve‧ro

vero

1. tax

• veroinen

• “vero”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• rove

Inherited from Latin vērus (“true”), from Proto-Italic *wēros, from a Proto-Indo-European *weh₁-ros, from *weh₁- (“true”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.ro/

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: vé‧ro

vero (feminine vera, masculine plural veri, feminine plural vere, superlative verissimo)

1. true

   Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

   If it is not true, it is a good story.

2. real, genuine

   Synonyms: reale, genuino

vero m (plural veri)

1. truth

• vero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• ervo, vore

• viro (Merovingian)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈweː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ro]

• (but): ů

From vērus +‎ -ō (adverb-forming suffix).

• verò (early modern)

vērō (not comparable)

1. verily, truly, really, doubtless, in truth
2. in particular, specifically
3. (as a postpositive) but
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 1:23

     Tobias vero cum filio suo et cum uxore fugiens nudus latuit quia multi diligebant eum.

     But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him.

From vērus +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

vērō (present infinitive vērāre, perfect active vērāvī, supine vērātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. (archaic) to tell the truth
   • Ennius, Annales, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, XVIII, 16:

     satin vates verant aetate in agunda?

See vērus.

vērō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vērus

• “vero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be averse to truth: a vero aversum esse (Catil. 3. 1. 29)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be led away from the truth: a vero abduci
    
  • (ambiguous) to be probable: a vero non abhorrere
    

From Latin vērus (“true”), from Proto-Italic *wēros, from a Proto-Indo-European *weh₁-ros, from *weh₁- (“true”).

• Rhymes: -ɛɾu
• Hyphenation: ve‧ro

vero (feminine vera, masculine plural veros, feminine plural veras)

1. (dated) true, real, genuine

   Synonym: verdadeiro

vero

1. throw

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾo/ [ˈbe.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ve‧ro

Inherited from Latin varius. Doublet of vario.

vero m (plural veros)

1. (heraldry) vair

Inherited from Latin vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from a Proto-Indo-European *weh₁-ros, from *weh₁- (“true”).

vero (feminine vera, masculine plural veros, feminine plural veras)

1. (literary, obsolete) true, real

   Synonym: verdadero

• “vero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Latin verus.

vero

1. true

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vero

1. custom, tradition
2. belief, superstition
3. ceremony

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “обычай, поверье, традиция, церемония”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

vero

1. truly