verus

From Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros, from *weh₁- (“true”). See also Old English wǣr (“true, correct”), Dutch waar (“true”), German wahr (“true”), Icelandic alvöru (“earnest”), Russian ве́ра (véra, “faith”).

• bērus
• uērus (typographic)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.rus/, [ˈweː.rʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.rus/, [ˈveː.rus]

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vērus (feminine vēra, neuter vērum, comparative vērior, superlative vērissimus); first/second declension

1. true, real, genuine, actual
2. proper, suitable
3. right, just

First/second declension.

Inflected form of verū.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwe.ruːs/, [ˈwɛ.ruːs]

verūs

1. genitive singular of verū

• verus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
    
  • (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 averse to truth: a vero aversum esse (Catil. 3. 1. 29)
    
  • (ambiguous) love of truth: veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas
    
  • (ambiguous) zealous pursuit of truth: veri inquisitio atque investigatio
    
  • (ambiguous) to be led away from the truth: a vero abduci
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be probable: a vero non abhorrere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be probable: veri simile esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to distinguish true and false: vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare
    
  • (ambiguous) to confuse true with false: vera cum falsis confundere
    
  • (ambiguous) in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie)
    
  • (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) nominally; really: verbo, nomine; re, re quidem vera
    
  • (ambiguous) to tell lies: falsa (pro veris) dicere
    
  • (ambiguous) a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
    
  • (ambiguous) without wishing to boast, yet..: quod vere praedicare possum
    
  • (ambiguous) to put it exactly: si quaeris, si verum quaerimus
    
• verus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray