Vera

See also: vera, verá, and Věra

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪə.ɹə/

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.
   • 1880 Ouida, Moths, Elibron.com (2001), →ISBN, page 51:

     Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere.

   • 1953 Eric Linklater, The House of Gair, J.Cape, page 214:

     I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.

Usage notes

• Popular in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1910s and the 1920s, particularly in England.

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: فِيرَا‎‎ f (verā), فِيرَا‎‎ f (fīrā)
• Belarusian: Ве́ра f (Vjéra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薇拉 (Wēilā)

• Czech: Věra (cs) f
• Danish: Vera
• Faroese: Vera f
• Finnish: Veera (fi)
• French: Vera (fr) f, Véra f
• German: Vera

• Greek: Βέρα (el) f (Véra)
• Japanese: ヴェラ (Vera)
• Latvian: Vera f
• Norwegian: Vera (no)
• Portuguese: Vera (pt) f
• Russian: Ве́ра (ru) f (Véra)
• Slovak: Viera f
• Swedish: Vera (sv)
• Ukrainian: Ві́ра f (Víra), Ве́ра f (Véra), Вє́ра f (Vjéra)

Etymology 2

From Spanish

Proper noun

Vera

1. A surname​ of Spanish origin.

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare

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Danish

Etymology

From Russian Ве́ра (Véra).

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

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Faroese

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Vera: Veruson
• daughter of Vera: Verudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Vera
Accusative	Veru
Dative	Veru
Genitive	Veru

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German

Etymology

From Russian Ве́ра (Véra) at the end of the 19th century.

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Also used as a diminutive of Veronika and Verena.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛrɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ra

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Vera	Verák
accusative	Verát	Verákat
dative	Verának	Veráknak
instrumental	Verával	Verákkal
causal-final	Veráért	Verákért
translative	Verává	Verákká
terminative	Veráig	Verákig
essive-formal	Veraként	Verákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Verában	Verákban
superessive	Verán	Verákon
adessive	Veránál	Veráknál
illative	Verába	Verákba
sublative	Verára	Verákra
allative	Verához	Verákhoz
elative	Verából	Verákból
delative	Veráról	Verákról
ablative	Verától	Veráktól

Possessive forms of Vera
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Verám	Veráim
2nd person sing.	Verád	Veráid
3rd person sing.	Verája	Verái
1st person plural	Veránk	Veráink
2nd person plural	Verátok	Veráitok
3rd person plural	Verájuk	Veráik

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Russian Ве́ра (Véra).

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

Anagrams

• evra

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1876. From Russian Ве́ра (Véra).

Proper noun

Vera f

1. A female given name.
2. A transliteration of The Russian female given name Ве́ра (Véra).

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Vera was the only given name of 8331 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Russian Ве́ра (Véra) in the 1880s.

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Vera f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Vera

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Ве́ра (Véra) in the 19th century.

Proper noun

Vera c (genitive Veras)

1. A female given name.
   • 1867 Zachris Topelius, Fältskärns berättelser, Bonnier (1867), Vol.5, page 162:

     Med denna tysta bön smög hon sig sakta bort och inneslöt sig uti sitt rum, för att där ännu »rådgöra med sin Herre och Gud», som hon fordom lärde af sin längesedan hädangångna fromma syster Veronica, efter hvilken Vera hade fått sitt namn, fastän något förkortadt.