Where does “veridical” come from?

Veridical comes from Latin veridicus, composed of Latin verus meaning "true" and Latin dicere meaning "to say," ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European weh₁- meaning "to speak or turn."

veridical (English): True; Pertaining to an experience, perception, or...

Definitions

  1. True; Pertaining to an experience, perception, or...

Ancestry of “veridical”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinveridicustruly said
2Latin-dicussaying
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “veridical”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -dicus →