The Latin word verum (true) is cognate with a Sanskrit word meaning to choose or believe: like one’s loved one, the one in whom one chooses to believe and place one’s trust, to whom one is ‘true’. We used to speak of plighting one’s ‘troth’ (an older form of the word ‘truth’). And we still speak of two surfaces that ‘marry’ well as being ‘true’. They meet and therefore are ‘meet’; they fit and therefore are ‘fit’. It is a matter of fit – and fidelity.
