name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Russian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
vera
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈvɪə.ɹə/
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rhymes with -ɪəɹə
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɪəɹə/
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General-American: /ˈvɪɹə/
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CMU ARPABET: V EH1 R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Spanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, slang
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: business, finance
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History
Etymology
Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the Russian virtue name Ве́ра (Véra, “faith”). By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera (“true”).
From Spanish.
From Vera Lynn.
As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "r" to represent risk-free (interest rate).
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فِيرَا (verā) — female given name
- Arabic: فِيرَا (fīrā) — female given name
- Belarusian: Ве́ра (Vjéra) — female given name
- Bulgarian: Вя́ра (Vjára) — female given name
- Chinese Mandarin: 薇拉 (Wēilā) — female given name
- Czech: Věra — female given name
- Danish: Vera — female given name
- Faroese: Vera — female given name
- Finnish: Veera — female given name
- French: Vera — female given name
- French: Véra — female given name
- German: Vera — female given name
- Greek: Βέρα (Véra) — female given name
- Ingrian: Veera — female given name
- Japanese: ヴェラ — female given name
- Latvian: Vera — female given name
- Norwegian: Vera — female given name
- Polish: Wiara — female given name
- Polish: Wiera — female given name
- Portuguese: Vera — female given name
- Russian: Ве́ра (Véra) — female given name
- Serbo-Croatian: Vera — female given name
- Serbo-Croatian: Vjera — female given name
- Slovak: Viera — female given name
- Upper Sorbian: Wera — female given name
- Swedish: Vera — female given name
- Ukrainian: Ві́ра (Víra) — female given name
- Ukrainian: Ве́ра (Véra) — female given name
- Ukrainian: Вє́ра (Vjéra) — female given name