Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
VERA
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Vera
A female given name from Russian.
Usage notes
• Popular in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1910s and the 1920s, particularly in England.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Vera
A surname of Spanish origin.
Anagrams
• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare
Etymology 1
From Vera Lynn.
Noun
vera (plural veras)
(Cockney rhyming slang) skin (rolling paper for cigarettes)
Etymology 2
Noun
vera (uncountable)
(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.
Synonyms
• rhova
Hypernyms
• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Anagrams
• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare
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