veru

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾu/ [ˈbe.ɾu]
• Rhymes: -eɾu
• Syllabification: ve‧ru

Inherited from Latin verus

veru m sg (feminine singular vera, neuter singular vero, masculine plural veros, feminine plural veres)

1. (archaic, literary) true, correct

   Synonym: verdaderu

• veiru (Western Asturias)
• averu (Mieres, Ayer, Riosa)
• aveiru (Cangas del Narcea)

• enteru y veru

Masculinization of vera.

veru m (plural veros)

1. edge, side

   Synonyms: vera, borde

2. bank (of river)

   Synonyms: vera, oriella

3. stable, or section of a stable, for goats
4. refuge, place to hide from the rain

   Synonym: abellugu

5. (fishing) hollows in a riverbank where fish hide

• “veru” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Declension forms of vera (“being, stay”).

veru f

1. accusative singular of vera
2. dative singular of vera
3. genitive singular of vera

Declension forms of vera (“being, stay”).

veru f

1. indefinite accusative singular of vera
2. indefinite dative singular of vera
3. indefinite genitive singular of vera

• verum
• verōnēs

From Proto-Italic *gʷeru (“spit”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷéru.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.ruː], [ˈwɛ.rʊ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ru]

verū̆ n (genitive verūs or verū); fourth declension

1. spit, broach (esp. for roasting)
2. dart, javelin
3. (in the plural) paling or railing around an altar or tomb
4. a critical sign on the margin of a book, obelus

Fourth-declension noun (neuter).

¹The length of the final vowel is uncertain in the nominative/accusative/vocative singular; Martianus Capella considers it to end with -ū, while Servius considers it to end with -ŭ.
²According to Martianus Capella.
³According to Servius.
⁴According to both.

• verūtum (“short throwing spear”)
• veruīna (“spit”)
• vericulum (“small pointed rod”)

• “veru”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veru in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Sicilian veru and/or Italian vero, both from Latin verus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛː.ru/

veru (feminine singular vera, plural veri or vera)

1. (usually prepositioned) real, actual, true

   il-veru sens tal-ħajja ― the real sense of life

2. (usually postpositioned) true, truthful

   tweġiba vera ― a true answer

• falz

veru f (definite singular vero, indefinite plural verur, definite plural verune)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of vere