veritable

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.ɹɪ.tə.bl/

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veritable (comparative more veritable, superlative most veritable)

1. True; genuine.

   He is a veritable genius.

   A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.

   (From Charlotte's Web).

   • 1942, Alfred Gallinek, “Psychogenic Disorders and the Civilization of the Middle Ages”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 99, number 1, page 47:

     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.

• avertible, rivetable

Borrowed from Latin veritābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ɾiˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [və.ɾiˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ve.ɾiˈta.ble]

veritable m or f (masculine and feminine plural veritables)

1. real; true; veritable

   Synonyms: vertader, autèntic, real, legítim

• veritablement

• “veritable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “veritable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

From Old French veritable.

veritable m or f (plural veritables)

1. true; real; not fake

• → English: veritable
• French: véritable

Borrowed from Latin veritabilis. See also Catalan veritable.

veritable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veritable)

1. true; real; not fake
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Li rois respont: "N'est mie fable,
     Ceste parole est veritable:

     The king responded "it's not a fairytale
     this story is true["]

• Middle French: veritable
  • → English: veritable
  • French: véritable