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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

vera causa en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin vera (“true”) + causa (“cause”).

Meanings

  1. The true or real cause of something.
    • Max von Pettenkofer […] upheld a version of the miasmatic theory and denied the bacillus was the vera causa of cholera. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 422: