verum

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Icelandic

Noun

verum

  1. indefinite dative plural of vera

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adverbial accusative of vērus (true).

Adverb

vērum (not comparable)

  1. truly; even so
  2. but; yet; however
  3. still

Etymology 2

Nominalization of the neuter of vērus (true).

Noun

vērum n (genitive vērī); second declension

  1. reality, fact
  2. military spear, javelin
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vērum vēra
Genitive vērī vērōrum
Dative vērō vērīs
Accusative vērum vēra
Ablative vērō vērīs
Vocative vērum vēra
Descendants
  • Romanian: adevăr

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vērum

  1. inflection of vērus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 4

From vēr (spring).

Noun

vērum n

  1. 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, 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

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Old Norse

Noun

verum

  1. dative plural of verr