de veras
Spanish
Etymology
See de, vero. Compare also Portuguese deveras (“really”), Romanian adevăr (“truth”) and Italian davvero (“really”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de ˈbeɾas/ [d̪e ˈβ̞e.ɾas]
- Syllabification: de ve‧ras
Adverb
- (chiefly Latin America, idiomatic) truly, really
Further reading
- “de veras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025