Vera

See also: vera, verá, and Věra

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from the Russian virtue name Вера (Véra, “faith”). By folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera (“true”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪə(ɹ).ə/

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.
   • 1880 Ouida, Moths, Elibron.com (2001), ISBN 1402174977, 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: فيرا f (vera, fīrā)
• Belarusian: Вера f (Vjéra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薇拉 (Wēilā)

• Czech: Věra (cs) f
• Danish: Vera
• 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)
• Russian: Вера (ru) f (Véra)
• Swedish: Vera (sv)
• Ukrainian: Віра (uk) f (Víra), Вера f (Véra), Вєра f (Vjéra)

Etymology 2

From Spanish

Proper noun

Vera

1. A surname​ of Spanish origin.

Anagrams

• aver, AVRE, evar, rave

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Danish

Etymology

From Russian Вера (Vera).

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

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German

Etymology

From Russian Вера (Vera) in 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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Icelandic

Etymology

From Russian Вера (Vera).

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 Вера (Vera).

Proper noun

Vera f

1. A female given name.
2. A transliteration of The Russian female given name Вера (Vera).

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• [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 Вера (Vera) in the 1880s.

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Russian Вера (Vera) in the 19th century.

Proper noun

Vera

1. A female given name.