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veri

veri is a Latin form of verus, meaning “true, real”.

It can also be a form of verum, “truth; (adv.) but, however”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 362 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.13.6: … eque tenuiter confectae, [hae] sive propter inopiam lini atque eius usus inscientiam, sive eo, quod est magis veri simile, quod tantas tempestates Oceani tantosque impetus ventorum sustineri ac tanta onera navium regi velis …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.16: Veri etiam simile illud est, qui sit temperans— quem Graeci appellant eamque virtutem vocant, quam soleo equidem t …

Suetonius, Divus Claudius 1.5: quod equidem magis ne praetermitterem rettuli, quam quia uerum aut ueri simile putem, cum Augustus tanto opere et uiuum dilexerit, ut coheredem semper filiis instituerit, sicut quon …

All forms of verus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.