TRUE Copy link • TRUENot false, real, verus (general term): sincerus, germanus (uncorrupt, pure, genuine). (The words are found in this connection and order.) verus et sincerus. To see anybody in his true colors, aliquem evolutum integumentis dissimulationis nudatumque perspicere (Cic.): a true scholar, vir vere doctus: a true Stoic, verus et sincerus Stoicus: germanus Stoicus: not a syllable of it is true, tota res ficta est: it is true, verum est: res ita se habet: res veritate nititur (general terms): non nego: concedo: fateor (as forms of giving assent): it is not true, falsum est: to be found or proved true, exitu comprobari: dreams come true, somnia evadunt or eveniunt (Cic.). Faithful, Vid: Exact, rectus. In forms of protestation and swearing: “as true as,” ita or sic with the subjunctive followed by ut, with the subjunctive if a wish is to be expressed, the indicative, if an assertion is to be made: “as true as I live, I shudder”, etc., ita vivam (or ita deos mihi velim propitios), ut - perhorresco: or (with ita vivam thrown in parenthetically) perhorresco, ita vivam, etc. “As true as I am alive, I should like,” etc., ita vivam (or ita mihi omnia, quae opto, contingant) ut velim, etc. In answers of partial assent followed by an objection. True... but; Vid: GOOD.