vera causa

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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vera causa

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