Etymograph

English

Veritas

Veritas comes from Latin vēritās ‘truth’, from vērus ‘true, real, actual’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weh₁ros‘true’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wēros‘true’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvērus‘true, real, actual’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēritās‘truth’
  5. EnglishtodayVeritas

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weh₁ros‘true’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wēros‘true’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvērus‘true, real, actual’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēritās‘truth’
  5. EnglishtodayVeritas

Linked words

through Latin vērus ‘true, real, actual’

very, verification, veracity, verily, aver, 8 more

Today it means

name The 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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros / Veritas

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