verum
Icelandic
Noun
verum
- indefinite dative plural of vera
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.rũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.rum]
Etymology 1
Adverbial accusative of vērus (“true”).
Adverb
vērum (not comparable)
Etymology 2
Nominalization of the neuter of vērus (“true”).
Noun
vērum n (genitive vērī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | vērum | vēra |
genitive | vērī | vērōrum |
dative | vērō | vērīs |
accusative | vērum | vēra |
ablative | vērō | vērīs |
vocative | vērum | vēra |
Descendants
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
vērum
- inflection of vērus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Etymology 4
From vēr (“spring”).
Noun
vērum n
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- verum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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
- (ambiguous) my dream is coming true: somnium verum evādit (Div. 2. 53. 108)
Anagrams
Old Norse
Noun
verum
- dative plural of verr