verax
Latin
Etymology
From vērus (“true”) + -āx.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.raːks/, [ˈu̯eːräːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.raks/, [ˈvɛːräks]
Adjective
vērāx (genitive vērācis, adverb vērāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- truthful
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 | ||
Derived terms
- vērāgus
Descendants
- → Catalan: veraç
- → English: veracious
- → French: vérace
- → Italian: verace
- → Portuguese: veraz
- → Sicilian: viraci
- → Spanish: veraz
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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray