different between faithful vs veritable

English

Alternative forms

• faithfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe??.f?l/

Adjective

faithful (comparative faithfuler or more faithful, superlative faithfulest or most faithful)

1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.

2. Having faith.
   • 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)

     The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.

3. Reliable; worthy of trust.

4. Consistent with reality.

5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
   • 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]

     She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful .

6. (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

Derived terms

• faithfully
• faithfulness

Translations

See also

• go to the wall for someone
• stand by
• true

Noun

faithful (plural faithfuls)

1. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.

2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

English

Etymology

From Middle French veritable, from Old French veritable, from Latin veritabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.??.t?.bl/

Adjective

veritable (comparative more veritable, superlative most veritable)

1. True; genuine.

   • Life in the Middle Ages was a colossal religious game. The dominant value was salvation in a life hereafter. Emphasizing that "to divorce medieval hysteria from its time and place is not possible," Gallinek observes: It was the aim of man to leave all things worldly as far behind as possible, and already during lifetime to approach the kingdom of heaven. The aim was salvation. Salvation was the Christian master motive.—The ideal man of the Middle Ages was free of all fear because he was sure of salvation, certain of eternal bliss. He was the saint, and the saint, not the knight nor the troubadour, is the veritable ideal of the Middle Ages.

   He is a veritable genius.

   A fair is a veritable smorgasbord. (From Charlotte's Web).

Related terms

Anagrams

• avertible, rivetable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin veritabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.?i?ta.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.?i?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.?i?ta.ble/

Adjective

veritable (masculine and feminine plural veritables)

1. real; true; veritable

   Synonyms: vertader, autèntic, real, legítim

Derived terms

• veritablement

Further reading

• “veritable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “veritable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “veritable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “veritable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French veritable.

Adjective

veritable m or f (plural veritables)

1. true; real; not fake

Descendants

• ? English: veritable
• French: véritable

Old French

Etymology

From Latin veritabilis.

Adjective

veritable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veritable)

1. true; real; not fake

Descendants

• Middle French: veritable
  • ? English: veritable
  • French: véritable