The corpus record — Latin

veridicus

veridicus · adj

that speaks the truth

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

vērĭdĭcus — Lewis & Short

vērĭdĭcus, a, um, adj.verus-dico,

I that speaks the truth, truth-telling, veracious, veridical (rare but class.).

I Lit., act.: os, Lucr. 6, 6: voces, Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101: sorores, Mart. 5, 1, 3: interpres, Liv. 1, 7.—

II Transf., pass., that is truly said; true, veritable: usus, true experience, Plin. 18, 4, 6, § 25: exitus, id. 7, 16, 15, § 69.—Adv.: vērĭdĭcē, truly: agere (opp. rhetorice), Aug. Ep. 17: praedicere, Amm. 31, 1, 2.

In the wild

veridicum Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.326
veridicis Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.24
veridicae Martial, Epigrammata 5.1.3
veridico Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.4
veridico Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.16.p2
veridicae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.10.15

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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