Meanings
veritas1
nounveritas (countable and uncountable, plural veritates)
plural veritates
- countableuncountableTruth, particularly of a transcendent character.
Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.
2007 March 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Campus Exposure”, in New York Times
Veritas2
proper noun
- Romanhuman sciencesThe Goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn, and the mother of Virtus, also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter, or a creation of Prometheus; she is equivalent to Aletheia in Greek mythology
Origin
veritas · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*weh₁ros
- Proto-Italic*wēros
- Latinvērus
- Latinvēritās
- Englishveritas
Borrowed from Latin vēritās. Doublet of verity.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Veritas · proper noun
- Latinvēritās“truth; verity”
- EnglishVeritas
Borrowed from Latin vēritās (“truth; verity”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
veritas. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/veritas
MLA
“veritas.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/veritas. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “veritas,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/veritas.
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