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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *weh₁-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈweː.reː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛː.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vērē''' (comparative vērius, superlative vērissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|vērus|-ē|t1=true]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vērus]] to [[itc-pro|*wēro-]] and [[ine-pro|*weh₁-ro-|t=true]], cognate with [[sga|fír|t=true]], [[goh|wār|t=true]] and [[cu|вѣра|tr=věra|t=faith]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler first records it in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''nī vērē perierit, sī cēnāssit domī'', “he would really die if he dined at home”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Vērē'' is “really, truly, indeed”, as opposed to seeming or in name only, also with adjectives, “truly so-and-so” (Cicero: three kinds of Greeks really exist).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The comparative ''vērius'' is “more correctly” in choosing the better of two words (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) It is also “in accordance with the truth, correctly” (Plautus) and “truthfully, frankly” (Cicero: ''vērē tēcum agam'', “I will deal frankly with you”).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “truly, in truth, indeed, rightly”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''nī vērē perierit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''vērē tēcum agam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Really, [[m|en|truly]], indeed.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(comparative)'' More correctly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Correctly; truthfully, [[m|en|frankly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vērus]]

+ * [[vērō]]

+ * [[vēritās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}