verax Latin · revision 33594

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ueh1-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vērāx''' (genitive vērācis, adverb vērāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Comparative ''vērācior''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vērus|-āx|t1=true]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vērus]] to [[itc-pro|*wēro-]] and [[ine-pro|*ueh1-ro-|t=true]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|fír|t=true]], [[cy|gwir|t=true]] and [[goh|wār|t=true]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Captivi'' has someone told that if he speaks the truth he will be acting in his own interest: ''si eris verax, tua ex re facies''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means speaking the truth, truthful, and of things conveying the truth:^(OLD 2012) Cicero has a truthful oracle, senses that report truly and calm, truthful visions in sleep, and Tibullus a truthful witch.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is true or truthful, and as a noun a truthful speaker,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it is said of a charter that is genuine rather than forged.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a man speaking the truth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a truthful oracle and truthful dreams.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus, of a truthful witch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – Of a charter: genuine.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * 1670s – English [[m|en|veracious]] is formed on its stem.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Speaking the truth, [[m|en|truthful]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things: conveying the truth, true.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of a charter: [[m|en|genuine]], not forged.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A truthful speaker.^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vērus]]

+ * [[vērō]]

+ * [[en|veracious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}