vera

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪəɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɹə/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪəɹə, (General American) -ɪɹə

From Vera Lynn.

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): [ˈvera]
• 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): [ˈveːɹa]
• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

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 *wēros (“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) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ra/, [ˈu̯eːrä]
• vēra: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/, [ˈvɛːrä]
• vērā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.raː/, [ˈu̯eːräː]
• vērā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/, [ˈvɛːrä]

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) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.ra/, [ˈu̯eːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ra/, [ˈvɛːrä]

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): /²vɛˑra/, [²ʋɛ̝ːrɐ̞], [²ʋɛ̝rɐ̞], [²ʋɛ̝rːɐ̞]

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 older manuscripts. Note that although er comes from earlier es, eru does not come from earlier *esu.

• Icelandic: vera
• Faroese: vera
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vera; (dialectal) vère, vè, vårå, vørå, vørrø, vara, va
• Jamtish: vara, ve
• Elfdalian: wårå
• Westrobothnian: vera
• 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)

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

vera

1. feminine singular of vero

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛra]

vera (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of verra

vera (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of verra

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

• verjẹ́ti

• “vera”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾa/ [ˈbe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ve‧ra

From Latin viria.

vera f (plural veras)

1. (poetic) side, face

   Synonym: lado

   a tu vera ― by your side.

2. shore, bank (of a watercourse)

   Synonyms: ribera, orilla

3. edge, border

   Synonym: orilla

• a la vera

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• a ver

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

• IPA^(key): [ʋèːɾɐ], [ʋɛ̀ːɾɐ]

  Rhymes: -èːrɐ, -ɛ̀ːrɐ

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -èːðɐ, -èːrɐ

vera (present singular gjär or jer, plural jera or jara or jåra or vara, preterite var or vær, plural vor, supine vörä or vuri or vyri, negated ovörä or ovuri or ovyri)

1. to be

   doran jåra ipi

   the doors are open

   trȯja giär agg

   the sweater is inside out

   räingblåommen jera jåo fin å

   marigolds are nice as well

   Han hadd ovyri i anne.

   He had not been anywhere else.

• vära, wara, våra

• samvöru

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “vera”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 795