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truth
English
Alternative forms
- trewth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English tr?owþ, tr?ewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþ? (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *dr?- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +? -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr??th, IPA(key): /t?u??/
- Rhymes: -u??
Noun
truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.
- 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
- 1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":
- The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:truth
Antonyms
- falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
- You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
- 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
See also
- truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Hurtt
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dictum
English
Etymology
From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“I say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?d?k.t?m/
Noun
dictum (plural dicta or dictums)
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- ...a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound...
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- An arbitrament or award.
See also
- ipse dixit
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d??kt????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d?ikt?um]
Etymology 1
Neuter form of dictus (“said, spoken”), past passive participle of d?c? (“to say, to speak”).
Noun
dictum n (genitive dict?); second declension
- a word, saying, something said
- proverb, maxim, saw
- bon mot, witticism
- Synonym: dict?rium
- verse, poetry
- a prophesy, prediction
- order, command
- promise, assurance
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- dictum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dictum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- dictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
dictum
- inflection of dictus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Verb
dictum
- accusative supine of d?c?
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
dictum n (definite singular dictumet, indefinite plural dicta or dictum, definite plural dicta or dictaa or dictai or dictuma or dictumi)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by diktum
Spanish
Noun
dictum m (plural dictums)
- dictum
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