verax

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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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender 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:

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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