Veronica

See also: veronica, verònica, verónica, verônica, Verònica, Verónica, and Verônica

Translingual

Etymology

From Veronica (“Veronica”), probably after Saint Veronica, possibly for because of the flowers of some European species resembling the image on the Veil of Veronica in some way.

Pronunciation

• English:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/

Proper noun

Veronica f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Plantaginaceae – many species of herbaceous plants, many with blue flowers, including speedwells.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Plantaginaceae – family; Veroniceae

Hyponyms

• (genus): Veronica subg. Beccabunga, Veronica subg. Chamaedrys, Veronica subg. Cochlidiosperma, Veronica subg. Derwentia, Veronica subg. Digitatae, Veronica subg. Fruticulosae, Veronica subg. Hebe, Veronica subg. Orientales, Veronica subg. Paederotella, Veronica subg. Pellidosperma, Veronica subg. Pocilla, Veronica subg. Pseudolysimachion, Veronica subg. Synthyris, Veronica subg. Veronica - subgenera
  • Veronica officinalis (heath speedwell) - type species; for the numerous other species see Veronica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Veronica (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Veronica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Veronica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Veronica

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

From the Latin form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Φερενίκη (Phereníkē). Influenced by the Church Latin phrase vera icon ("true image") associated with the veil of Saint Veronica, who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, resulting in an image of his face miraculously appearing on the veil. Doublet of Berenice.

Proper noun

Veronica

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 128:

     My own name, Veronica — an ugly enough thing I had always thought, it sounded like either the ointment or the disease — was one her great favourites. St Veronica wiped the face of Christ on the road to Calvary and He left His face on her tea towel. Or the picture of His face. It was the first-ever photograph, she said.

Derived terms

• Veronica bucket

Translations

female given name

Albanian: Veronika f Arabic: فِيرُونِيكَا f (fīrūnīkā), وَرْنِيقَة f (warnīqa), وِيرُونِيكَة f (wīrūnīka) Armenian: Վերոնիկա (Veronika) Basque: Veronika (eu) Belarusian: Верані́ка f (Vjeraníka) Breton: Veronika (br) f Catalan: Verònica (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 韋羅妮卡 / 韦罗妮卡 (Wéiluónīkǎ) Czech: Veronika (cs) f Esperanto: Veronika Estonian: Veronika Finnish: Veronica, Veronika (fi) French: Véronique (fr) f Galician: Verónica (gl) f Georgian: ვერონიკა (veroniḳa) German: Veronika (de) f Greek: Βερενίκη (el) f (Vereníki), Βερόνικα (el) (Verónika) (transliteration from other languages) Hungarian: Veronika (hu) Icelandic: Veronika (is) f Italian: Veronica (it) f Japanese: ヴェロニカ (Veronika) Korean: 베로니카 (Beronika) Latin: Veronica f Latvian: Veronika f Lithuanian: Verònika (lt) f Macedonian: Вероника f (Veronika) Norwegian: Veronika (no), Veronica (no) Polish: Weronika (pl) f Portuguese: Verônica (pt) f, Verónica (pt) f Romanian: Veronica f Russian: Верони́ка (ru) f (Veroníka) Serbo-Croatian: Veronika (sh) f Slovak: Veronika f Slovene: Veronika (sl) f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: Weronika (hsb) f Spanish: Verónica (es) f Swedish: Veronika (sv), Veronica Ukrainian: Вероніка (uk) f (Veronika)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Verónica.

Proper noun

Veronica (plural Veronicas)

1. A surname from Spanish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Veronica is the 34427^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 658 individuals. Veronica is most common among Hispanic/Latino (77.36%) and White (17.48%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Veronica”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• varicone

Latin

Etymology

Late variant of Berenīcē, influenced by Ecclesiastical Latin vera icon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. not sure about the origin of that ety, just copying from elsewhere

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛ.rɔˈniː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ve.roˈniː.ka]

Proper noun

Veronīca f (genitive Veronīcae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a female given name

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Veronīca	Veronīcae
genitive	Veronīcae	Veronīcārum
dative	Veronīcae	Veronīcīs
accusative	Veronīcam	Veronīcās
ablative	Veronīcā	Veronīcīs
vocative	Veronīca	Veronīcae

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: Вероника (Veronika)
• → Catalan: Verònica
• → Chinese: 韋羅妮卡 / 韦罗妮卡 (Wéiluónīkǎ)
• → Czech: Veronika
• → Danish: Veronika
• → English: Veronica
• → Estonian: Veronika
• → Finnish: Veronika
• → French: Véronique
• → Galician: Verónica
• → German: Veronika
• → Hungarian: Veronika
• → Icelandic: Veróníka
• → Italian: Veronica
• → Korean: 베로니카 (beronika)
• → Latvian: Veronika
• → Lithuanian: Veronika
• → Macedonian: Вероника (Veronika)
• → Norwegian: Veronika
• → Old English: Veronix
• → Polish: Weronika
• → Portuguese: Verônica
• → Romanian: Veronica
• → Russian: Вероника (Veronika)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Вероника

  Latin script: Veronika

• → Slovak: Veronika
• → Slovene: Veronika
• → Sorbian: Weronika
• → Spanish: Verónica
• → Swedish: Veronika
• → Ukrainian: Вероніка (Veronika)
• → Welsh: Feronica

Norwegian

Alternative forms

• Veronika

Proper noun

Veronica

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Veronica

Romanian

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Veronica f

1. a female given name

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Veronika

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Veronica c (genitive Veronicas)

1. Veronica. a female given name

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Verónica.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /veˈɾonika/ [vɛˌɾoː.n̪ɪˈxa]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /beˈɾonika/ [bɛˌɾoː.n̪ɪˈxa]
• Rhymes: -onika
• Syllabification: Ve‧ro‧ni‧ca

Proper noun

Verónicá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇᜓᜈᜒᜃ)

1. a female given name from Spanish