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VER comes from Latin word versus "true"真相, 事实,常见的单词verify(核实), 就包含ver的词根, from PIE root *were-o- "true, trustworthy".常见变体形式有VERI
VER思维导图
词源故事:
在罗马神话中有一位真理女神, 叫Veritas(维瑞塔斯), 她是农神萨图恩的女儿, 美德女神(Virtue)的母亲, 对应于希腊神话中的真理女神Aletheia(阿莱西娅)，她常藏身于井底,很难为世人所发现。也就有了后来的真理掌握在少数人的手里。
VER相关词汇:
verify ['vɛrɪfaɪ] vt. 核实；查证
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☉拆: ver(true) ify(v后缀 make..) -> 使...真实 -> 核实
☉拓展verification [,vɛrɪfɪ'keʃən] n. 确认，查证；核实
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- verify (v.)
- early 14c., from Old French verifier "substantiate, find out the truth about" (14c.), from Medieval Latin verificare "make true," from Latin verus "true" (see very) root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
veracity [və'ræsəti] n. 诚实；精确性；老实；说真实话
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☉拆: ver(true) acity(n后缀: 表示...倾向) -> 有老实倾向 -> 说话老实; 老实
☉拓展veracious [və'reʃəs] adj. 诚实的；真实的
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- veracity (n.)
- 1620s, from French véracité (17c.), from Medieval Latin veracitatem (nominative veracitas) "truthfulness," from Latin verax (genitive veracis) "truthful," from verus "true" (see very).
verdict ['vɝdɪkt] n. 结论；裁定
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☉拆: ver(true) dict(speak说) -> 说真实话 -> 裁决
☉拓展veridical [vɪ'rɪdɪk(ə)l] adj. 不虚伪的；诚实的
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- verdict (n.)
- 1530s, alteration of Middle English verdit (c. 1300), "a jury's decision in a case," from Anglo-French verdit (Old French voirdit) "sworn testimony, affidavit; judgment, written record of a verdict," literally "a true saying or report," from ver, veir "true" (see very) dit, past participle of dire "to say" (see diction). Spelling influenced by Medieval Latin verdictum "a verdict."
verism ['viərizəm] n. 真实主义，写实主义
☉拆: ver(true) ism(n后缀: 表示...主义) -> 真实主义
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- verism (n.)
- "the theory that art and literature should strictly reproduce truth," 1892, from Italian verismo, from vero "truth," from Latin verus (see very) -ismo, Italian form of -ism.
veritas [拉丁语] 真理; 真实; 真相
verisimilitude [,verɪsɪ'mɪlɪtjuːd] n. 逼真，貌似真实；逼真的事物
☉拆: veri(true) simil-(same 相似) itude(n后缀 表性质或状态) -> 和真实一样的 -> 好像真实的
☉拓展verisimilar [,vɛrə'sɪməlɚ] adj. 好像是真的 GRE
☉词源
- verisimilitude (n.)
- "appearance of truth or reality, likelihood," c. 1600, from French verisimilitude (1540s), from Latin verisimilitudo "likeness to truth," from veri, genitive of verum, neuter of verus "true" (see very) similis "like, similar" (see similar). Related: Verisimilar.
very ['vɛri] adj. 恰好是，正是；甚至；十足的；特有的 adv. 非常，很；完全
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☉拆: very- 真实
☉词源
- very (adj.)
- late 13c., verray "true, real, genuine," later "actual, sheer" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French verrai, Old French verai "true, truthful, sincere; right, just, legal," from Vulgar Latin *veracus, from Latin verax (genitive veracis) "truthful," from verus "true" (source also of Italian vero), from PIE root *were-o- "true, trustworthy" (cognates: Old English wær "a compact," Old Dutch, Old High German war, Dutch waar, German wahr "true;" Welsh gwyr, Old Irish fir "true;" Old Church Slavonic vera "faith," Russian viera "faith, belief"). Meaning "greatly, extremely" is first recorded mid-15c. Used as a pure intensive since Middle English.
壹 句
The quality of a university, to some extent, is in direct proportion to that of its library.
一所大学的质量在一定程度上与其图书馆的质量成正比.
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