in vino veritas
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin in vīnō vēritās (literally “in wine there is truth”), from in (“in”) + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum (“wine”) + vēritās (“truth”). While various classical writers in both Greek and Latin make similar statements, the form in vino veritas is from the 16th-century humanist Erasmus, and is first attested in English writing soon afterwards in the same century.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proverb[edit]
in vino veritas
- In wine, there is truth.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:in vino veritas.
Translations[edit]
in wine, there is truth — see in wine, there is truth
References[edit]
- ^ “in vino veritas, phr.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
