true
/tɹuː/ · adj
Meaning
- Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
- Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- based on actual historical events.
- Accurately; in alignment.
- Truthfully.
- The state of being in alignment.
- Truth.
- To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust (often followed by up).
- A pledge or truce.
- one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States.
- A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English treowe, trew, trewe, triwe, true, trwe, from Old English trēowe, trīewe (“faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“faithful, true”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewH- (“firm, hard, true”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Alemannic German trüüw (“loyal”), Dutch trouw (“loyal, true”), German treu (“loyal, true”), Luxembourgish trei (“loyal”), Danish tryg (“safe, secure”), Faroese and Icelandic tryggur (“faithful, loyal; safe”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true; faithful, loyal”); also Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”) (possibly also Proto-Slavic *sъdorvъ (“healthy”) from the same root). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
- robustus(Latin)→
- *sъdorvъ(sla-pro)→
- δροόν(Ancient Greek)→
- druwis(prg)→
- dearbh(Irish)→
- 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃(Gothic)→
- trygg(nb,nn,sv)→
- tryggur(fo,is)→
- tryg(Danish)→
- trei(Luxembourgish)→
- treu(German)→
- trouw(Dutch)→
- trüüw(Alemannic German)→
- trjou(Saterland Frisian)→
- *drew-(ine-pro)→
- *triwwiz(gem-pro)→
- trēowe(ang)→
- treowe(Middle English)→
- true (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- trüüw(Alemannic German) (cog)
- 觸(Chinese) (bor)
- truu(Estonian) (cog)
- treu(German) (cog)
- trei(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- trygg(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
- derb(Old Irish) (cog)
- trei(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
- трушный(Russian) (der)
- tru(Sranan Tongo) (der)
- eurt(Tagalog) (der)
- trik-(Tocharian B) (cog)
- tru(Tok Pisin) (inh)
- True(Translingual) (der)
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