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vērus true
vērus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means true.
Definitions for vērus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
true, real, proper
English derivatives:
verify verisimilitude very veracity
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A cognomen, esp. of L. Aurelius Verus, adopted son of the emperor Antoninus Pius, and colleague of Marcus Aurelius A.D. 161-9.
Adjective
- 1
Real (as opposed to counterfeit), genuine. (b) (of attributes) true, proper. (c) (of things) genuine, authentic.
- 2
Real (as opposed to an illusion, imitation, representation, etc.), actual. (b) (of abst. things) not simulated, real. (C) in actual fact, really.
- 3
Seen, experienced, etc., in its actual form. as it really is.
- 4
That is thoroughly and actually what is implied by its name, real.
- 5
Properly so-called, true.
Sentences with vērus
Latin to English
Vērī amīcī sunt paucī.Compare True friends are few.
Sī illī duo amīcōs cupiunt, vēra beneficia faciant.Compare If those two men desire friends, let them do real kindnesses.
Ipse enim se quisque diligit, non ut aliquam a se ipse mercedem exigat caritatis suae, sed quod per se quisque sibi carus est; quod nisi idem in amicitiam transferetur, verus amicus numquam reperetur: est enim is qui est tamquam alter idem.Compare Everyone loves himself, not with a view of acquiring some profit for himself from his self-love, but because he is dear to himself on his own account; and unless this same thing were transferred to friendship, the real friend would never be found; for he is, as it were, another self.
Dixit et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos; et vera incessu patuit dea.Compare She spoke. She turned away; and as she turned, her neck glowed to a rose-flush, her crown of ambrosial hair breathed out a heavenly fragrance, her robe flowed down, down to her feet, and in gait she was all a goddess.
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia manes.Compare There are two gates of Sleep: the one is made of horn, they say, and affords the outlet for genuine apparitions; the other's a gate of brightly-shining ivory: this way the Shades send up to earth false dreams that impose upon us.
Sum enim Scipio non verus tantum virtus mirabilis, sed ars quoque quidam in ostentatio is compositus.Compare For Scipio was not only remarkabke for true virtues, but also fitted by a certain tact for the display of them.
Do is praeterea potestas, verbum praetorius, res verus regius.Compare He gives them besides power, in title that of praetors, in reality that of kings.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 28.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 2046.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "vērus, vēra, vērum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/verus-vera-verum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 28.vērus, vēra, vērum on page 28
