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Vera

//ˈvɪəɹə// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A female given name from Russian.
"Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere."
2
A surname from Spanish.

Noun

1
A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes). Cockney, slang
"Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!"
2
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. uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Vera Lynn.

Etymology 2

As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "r" to represent risk-free (interest rate).

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

From Spanish.

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