vera

From Vera Lynn.

vera (plural veras)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) 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/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ra
• Rhymes: -era

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. 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. 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.

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 Islamic 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/, [ˈveːr̺ä]
• 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 Italy) wedding ring, wedding band

   Synonym: fede

2. (architecture) puteal, wellhead

   Synonyms: ghiera, puteale

See the etymology of the main entry.

vera

1. Feminine singular of adjective vero.

• aver

From vērus (“true”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.ra/

vēra

1. nominative feminine singular of vērus
2. nominative neuter plural of vērus
3. accusative neuter plural of vērus
4. vocative feminine singular of vērus
5. vocative neuter plural of vērus

• French: voire

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.raː/

vērā

1. ablative feminine singular of vērus

From vēr (“Spring”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.ra/

vēra n

1. nominative plural of vēr
2. accusative plural of vēr
3. 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, 1883–1887)

• vere

From Old Norse vera, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋeːrɑ/, /²ʋæːrɑ/ (examples of pronunciation)

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.

vera til

1. to exist

• “vera” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną.

vera

1. to be

• 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, 1883–1887)

vera

1. Feminine singular of adjective 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, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros (“true”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋèːra/
• Tonal orthography: vẹ́ra

véra f (genitive vére, nominative plural vére)

1. religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾa/

From Latin viria.

vera f (plural veras)

1. (poetic) side, face

   A tu vera.

   By your side.

2. shore or bank of a watercourse, edge, border.
3. edge, border

• a la vera

vera f (plural veras)

1. verawood (Bulnesia arborea)

Inflected form of vero

vera

1. Feminine singular of adjective vero.

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, 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