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Verein 316
Verein [Ger], association; company; society; club: abbr. Ver.
Vereinigte Staaten [Ger], United States: abbr. Ver. St.
verger [Fr], orchard; fruit garden.
vergonha [Pg], shame!
veritas [L], truth. —veritas entis [LL], lit., truth of being; metaphysical
truth. —veritas nunquam perit, truth never dies. —veritas odium
parit, truth begets hatred: Ausonius. —veritas omnia vincit, truth
conquers all things. —veritas praevalebit, truth will prevail. —veritas
signi, truth of a symbol. —veritas temporis filia, truth is the daughter
of time. —veritas victrix, truth the conqueror. —veritas vincit, truth
conquers.
veritatem dies aperit [L], time reveals the truth.
veritatis simplex oratio est [L], the language of truth is simple: Seneca.
vérité sans peur [Fr], truth without fear.
Verlag [Ger], publishing house.
Verlagsbuchhändler [Ger], publisher.
vermoulu [Fr; fern, vermoulue], worm-eaten; crumbling into dust.
vernaccia [It], an Italian white wine, made esp. in Sardinia.
Vernunft [Ger], reason; understanding; sense.
verre [Fr], glass; tumbler.
verrückt [Ger], crazy.
versal [Sp; pi. versales], capital letter: typog.
versalilla [Sp], small capital: typog.
Versammlung [Ger], assembly; meeting.
vers libre [Fr], free verse.
Verstand [Ger], understanding; intelligence; sense; discernment.
verstimmt [Ger], in bad temper; out of tune: music.
verso [L], left-hand page; opposed to RECTO.
verte [L], turn; turn the page.
verweile doch! du bist so schön! [Ger], ah, still delay—thou art so
fair!: Goethe.
vesania [L], insanity: mea.
vesica piscis [L], lit., fish bladder; an oval aureole often surrounding
the figure of Christ and the saints in early Christian art.
Vesperbrot [Ger], afternoon tea; light afternoon meal.
vestigia [L; pi. of vestigium], footsteps; tracks; traces; vestiges. —vestigia
morientis libertatis, the footprints of expiring liberty. —vestigia nulla
retrorsum, no footsteps backward: Horace (adapted). —vestigia terrent,
the footprints frighten me (part of the quotation containing
Reynard's reply to the sick lion's invitation, quia me vestigia terrent,
omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum, "I'm frightened at those
footsteps: every track leads to your home, but ne'er a one leads
back"): Horace (tr. by Conington).
veteris vestigia flammae [L], remnants of an ancient flame: Virgil
describing Dido's rekindled passion for Aeneas.