The corpus record — Latin
uerus
uerus
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 87 · 149.18/10k
- Fragmenta 2 · 148.15/10k
- Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 20 · 145.67/10k
- Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 41 · 141.14/10k
- Utrum Pater Et Filius Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber 5 · 93.63/10k
- De consolatione philosophiae 221 · 89.86/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 73.8/10k
- Apologia 82 · 38.15/10k
- Otho 5 · 31.71/10k
- Divus Claudius 20 · 31.31/10k
- De Fide Catholica 6 · 31.12/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 10 · 28.83/10k
Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- uero Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.pr.5
- uero Apuleius, Apologia 93
- uero Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.27.p2
- uerum Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.2.7
- uera Apuleius, Apologia 20
- uerum Silius Italicus, Punica 16.609
6 of 1,313 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. verus (scan pp. 682-683; entry #1963). Root candidates: *wero-, *ueruos-, *ueru-.
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