vera

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪəɹə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

From Vera Lynn. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

vera (plural veras)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
   • 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)

     Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!

As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "r" to represent risk-free (interest rate).

vera (uncountable)

1. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.

• rhova

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare

From Latin viria.

vera f (plural veres)

1. edge, side
2. bank (of river)
3. wayside (of road, etc.)
4. acre (of land)
5. edging

vera

1. fence
2. wall

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: ve‧ra

vera (accusative singular veran, plural veraj, accusative plural verajn)

1. true

From Old Norse vera (“to be”), from vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- and *h₂wes-.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -eːɹa
• Homophone: verða

vera (third person singular past indicative var, third person plural past indicative vóru, supine verið)

1. (transitive, intransitive, takes nominative adjectives or nouns) to be

vera f (genitive singular veru, plural verur)

1. being

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

From Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Cognate with Danish være, Norwegian Bokmål være, Norwegian Nynorsk vera, and Swedish vara.

vera (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative var, third-person plural past indicative voru, supine verið)

1. (transitive, intransitive, takes nominative adjectives or nouns) to be

   Það er gaman að vera góður.

   It is fun being good.

   Að vera eða vera ekki.

   To be or not to be.

   Ég var kennari áður en ég gerðist stærðfræðingur.

   I was a teacher before I become a mathematician.

   Hvernig veistu að þetta sé ekki gildra?

   How do you know that this is not a trap?

The subjunctive forms sé, sért, sé, séum, séuð and séu are used as other Icelandic verbs, e.g. when the situation is hypothetical. By contrast, the forms veri, verir, veri, verum, verið and veri are unique to the verb vera, in that they are used optatively to express desires; e.g., fari hann og veri means may he leave and never return, and the phrase peace be upon you is translated friður veri með þér.

vera f (genitive singular veru, nominative plural verur)

1. a being, a creature
2. a stay

• evra

Borrowed from Esperanto vera, Italian vero, French vrai and Spanish vero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.ra/, /ˈve.ra/

vera

1. true

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: vé‧ra

From Late Latin viria (“bracelet”), from Gaulish *viros (“round, crooked”), from Proto-Celtic *weiros (“crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁ros (“turned, twisted, threaded”), from *weyh₁- (“to turn, twist, weave”).

vera f (plural vere)

1. (northern Italian) wedding ring, wedding band

   Synonym: fede

2. (architecture) puteal, wellhead

   Synonyms: ghiera, puteale

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vera f sg

1. feminine singular of vero

• aver

From vērus (“true”).

• vēra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ra/,
• vēra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/,
• vērā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.raː/,
• vērā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/,

vēra

1. inflection of vērus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

• French: voire

vērā

1. ablative feminine singular of vērus

From vēr (“Spring”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/,

vēra n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vēr

• “vera”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• vere (e-infinitive)
• vara, vårå, vørå, vørø, ve, va (dialectal)

From Old Norse vera, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. The present tense is suppletive and is from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

• IPA^(key): /²vɛ(ː)ra/, , ,
• Hyphenation: vè‧ra

vera (present tense er, past tense var, past participle vore, passive infinitive verast, present participle verande, imperative ver)

1. to be

   Ikkje alle kunne vera til stades.

   Not everyone could be present.

• This is a split infinitive verb.

• unnvera
• vera til
• vera ved

• “vera” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Arve, Vera, arve, erva, evar, rave, reva, vare, vear, vera

From vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną.

vera

1. to be

In certain contexts in poetry the initial vowel of certain forms of this verb could be dropped. Thus the form ro (normalized spelling ru), from ero (normalized eru), is found in Vǫlospá stanza 45 (scildir ro klofnir - shields are cloven).

The forms with /s/ instead of /r/ are older forms, found in the oldest manuscripts, Runic inscriptions and poems. Note that although er comes from earlier es, eru does not come from earlier *esu.

• Icelandic: vera
• Faroese: vera
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vera; (dialectal) vè, vårå, vørå, vørrø, vara, va
• Jamtish: vara, ve
• Elfdalian: wårå
• Old Swedish: vara, væra, væræ
  • Swedish: vara
• Old Danish: wæræ, waræ
  • Danish: være
    • Norwegian Bokmål: være
• Old Gutnish: wara

• “vera”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Sanskrit वैर (vaira).

vera n

1. hatred
   • c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:

     3. අක‍්කොච‍්ඡි මං අවධි මං අජිනි මං අහාසි මෙ
     යෙ තං උපනය‍්හන‍්ති වෙරං තෙසං න සම‍්මති

     3. akkocchi maṃ avadhi maṃ ajini maṃ ahāsi me
     ye taṃ upanayhanti veraṃ tesaṃ na sammati

     He abused me, he struck me, he defeated me, he robbed me.
     Hatred does not subside for those who nurse grudges thus.

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

   • c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:

     5. න හි වෙරෙන වෙරාචී සම‍්මන‍්තීධ කුදාචනං 5
     අඞවරෙන ච සම‍්මන‍්ති එස ධම‍්මො සනන‍්තනො.

     5. Na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ 5
     Averena ca sammanti esa dhammo sanantano.

     5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,
     but are settled by love. This is an eternal truth.

     (literally, “5. For in this world hatreds are not ever settled by hatred,
     but are settled by love. This truth is eternal.”)

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

• avera

• → Lü: ᦵᦞᧃ (ven) (learned)
• → Old Khmer: vera (learned)
  • Khmer: វេរ (vei)
• → Thai: เวร (ween) (learned)

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

vera

1. feminine singular of vero

• IPA^(key):

vera (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of verra

vera (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of verra

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věra, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.

• vjȅra (Ijekavian)
• vira (Ikavian)

• IPA^(key): /ʋêra/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ra

vȅra f (Cyrillic spelling ве̏ра)

1. belief, faith
2. religion

Borrowed from Italian vera.

• IPA^(key): /ʋêːra/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ra

vȇra f (Cyrillic spelling ве̑ра)

1. wedding ring

From Proto-Slavic *věra.

• IPA^(key): /ʋèːra/

vẹ́ra f

1. belief
2. faith
3. religion

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• verjẹ́ti

• “vera”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾa/
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ve‧ra

From Latin viria.

vera f (plural veras)

1. (poetic) side, face

   Synonyms: lado, cara

   a tu vera ― by your side.

2. shore, bank (of a watercourse)

   Synonyms: ribera, orilla

3. edge, border

   Synonym: orilla

Borrowed from English verawood.

vera f (plural veras)

1. verawood (Plectrocarpa arborea, syn. Bulnesia arborea)

Inflected form of vero

vera

1. feminine singular of vero

• “vera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• a ver