Veronica (given name)
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Veronica is a female given name
, the Latin
form of the Greek
name Berenice
, Βερενίκη, this the Ancient Macedonian
form of the Attic
Φερενίκη, Phereníkē, or Φερονίκη, Pheroníkē, from φέρειν, phérein, to bring, and νίκη, níkê, "victory", i.e. "she who brings victory". The Ancient Macedonian form of the name was popularized because of its extensive use as a royal feminine name by the reigning dynasties of the states of the Diadochi
of Alexander the Great throughout the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic age, most notably by the Ptolemies of Egypt
and by the Seleucids of Syria
. In medieval etymology
, Veronica was sometimes wrongly supposed to derive from Latin vera (true) and Greek eikon (image). Its popularity in medieval and modern times is based mainly on the importance in Christianity of Saint Veronica
and her Veil of Veronica
.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, the Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
form of the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
name Berenice
Berenice
Berenice or Berenike is the Ancient Macedonian form for Attic Greek Φερενίκη , meaning "bearer of victory", from φέρω "to bear" + νίκη "victory". Berenika priestess of Demeter in Lete ca. 350 BC is the oldest epigraphical evidence. The name also has the form Bernice...
, Βερενίκη, this the Ancient Macedonian
Ancient Macedonian language
Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedon during the 1st millennium BCE and it belongs to the Indo-European group of languages...
form of the Attic
Attic Greek
Attic Greek is the prestige dialect of Ancient Greek that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the most similar to later Greek, and is the standard form of the language studied in courses of "Ancient Greek". It is sometimes included in Ionic.- Origin and range...
Φερενίκη, Phereníkē, or Φερονίκη, Pheroníkē, from φέρειν, phérein, to bring, and νίκη, níkê, "victory", i.e. "she who brings victory". The Ancient Macedonian form of the name was popularized because of its extensive use as a royal feminine name by the reigning dynasties of the states of the Diadochi
Diadochi
The Diadochi were the rival generals, family and friends of Alexander the Great who fought for the control of Alexander's empire after his death in 323 BC...
of Alexander the Great throughout the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic age, most notably by the Ptolemies of Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and by the Seleucids of Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
. In medieval etymology
Medieval etymology
Medieval etymology is the study of the history of words as conducted by scholars in the European Middle Ages.Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Before the beginnings of large-scale modern lexicography in the 16th century and the discovery of the comparative method in the 18th, a...
, Veronica was sometimes wrongly supposed to derive from Latin vera (true) and Greek eikon (image). Its popularity in medieval and modern times is based mainly on the importance in Christianity of Saint Veronica
Saint Veronica
Saint Veronica or Berenice, according to the "Acta Sanctorum" published by the Bollandists , was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead...
and her Veil of Veronica
Veil of Veronica
The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium , often called simply "The Veronica" and known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face is a Catholic relic, which, according to legend, bears the likeness of the Face of Jesus not made by human hand The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth),...
.
List of persons with the given name Veronica
- Saint VeronicaSaint VeronicaSaint Veronica or Berenice, according to the "Acta Sanctorum" published by the Bollandists , was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead...
- Veronica (singer)Veronica (singer)Veronica is a dance music singer and theatrical actress. Along with singers Ultra Nate, Deborah Cox, she is considered to be one of the divas of the 1990s club music scene...
, American dance music singer - Veronica BallestriniVeronica BallestriniVeronica Ballestrini is an Italian-American country music singer and songwriter from Waterford, Connecticut. Her self-made success story has caught national attention as Jon Caramanica wrote in the New York Times, "...When someone like Ms...
, American singer - Veronica BelmontVeronica BelmontVeronica Ann Belmont is the co-host of the Revision3 show Tekzilla alongside Patrick Norton, and the former host of the monthly PlayStation 3-based video on demand program Qore. Formerly she was the host for the Mahalo Daily podcast and a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc...
, Internet TV and webcasting host - Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican track and field sprint athlete
- Veronica CarlsonVeronica CarlsonVeronica Carlson is an English model and actress, famous for her roles in Hammer horror films.Born as Veronica Mary Glazer, Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed...
, English model and actress in Hammer horror filmsHammer Film ProductionsHammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...
. - Veronica CartwrightVeronica CartwrightVeronica A. Cartwright is an English-born American actress who has worked mainly in American film and television. She is best known for her role of Lambert in Alien, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress....
, American actress - Verónica CastroVerónica CastroVerónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of actress Beatriz Castro,and telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....
, Mexican actress - Veronica De La CruzVeronica De La CruzVeronica De La Cruz is a Filipino American television anchor formerly with CNN. In July 2010, she appeared as a late night anchor on MSNBC. At the current time, she appears on both NBC and MSNBC, primarily anchoring NBC's Early Today show and MSNBC's First Look...
, CNN News anchor - Veronica FerresVeronica FerresVeronica Maria Cäcilia Ferres is a German actress who gained fame as Pierre Richard's co-star in the French TV-movie Sans famille and as the horrible Mme. Thénardier in the 2000 French TV miniseries Les Misérables...
, German actress - Veronica Finn, former pop singer
- Veronica FrancoVeronica FrancoVeronica Franco was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th century Venice.- Life as a courtesan :Renaissance Venetian society recognized two different classes of courtesans: the cortigiana onesta, the intellectual courtesan, and the cortigiana di lume, lower-class prostitutes who tended to live and...
, poet and courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice - Veronica GuerinVeronica GuerinVeronica Guerin was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event which, alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau....
, a murdered Irish journalist - Veronica GiulianiVeronica GiulianiSaint Veronica Giuliani, O.S.C. Cap., was an Italian Capuchin nun and mystic. She was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839.-Early life:...
, Italian mystic - Veronica LakeVeronica LakeVeronica Lake was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle...
, American film actress - Veronica MaggioVeronica MaggioVeronica Sandra Karin Maggio is a Swedish singer of Swedish and Italian origin. She won the category "Årets nykomling" in the Grammisgalan 2007....
, Swedish pop singer - Veronica MehtaVeronica MehtaVeronica is an Indian R&B singer based in London, UK, who sings in Hindi, Urdu, English and Punjabi.-Biography:Aged 16, Mehta successfully auditioned for the part of female vocalist for the 2Kool album 2Kool Flavor...
, British Asian singer - Verónica OrozcoVerónica OrozcoVerónica Orozco is a Colombian actress and singer.-Private life:Her older sister is actress Ana María Orozco.Her mother is Carmenza Aristizábal Hoyos and her father is actor Luís Fernando Orozco...
, Colombian actress and singer - Verónica PáezVerónica PáezVerónica Natalia Páez is a female marathon runner from Argentina, who is a two-time winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon in her native country . She twice won the Argentine title in the women's marathon, both in Santa Rosa .-Achievements:*All results regarding marathon, unless stated...
, Argentine marathon runner - Veronica RayneVeronica RayneVeronica Rayne is a retired American pornographic actress and star of the Fox Reality Channel TV show My Bare Lady 2:Open For Business.- Biography :...
, American pornographic actress - Verónica RibotVerónica RibotVerónica G. Ribot de Cañales is a retired female diver from Argentina. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1984. Ribot claimed a silver and a bronze medal in the Women's 10m Platform at the Pan American Games.Ribot is married, and has two kids,...
, Argentine diver - Veronica ScopellitiNoemi (singer)Noemi is an Italian singer and screenwriter.-Biography:Noemi is the eldest daughter of Armando and Stefania; she has only one sister Arianna. At 19 months she recorded an advert/commercial for Pampers...
, also known as Noemi, an Italian singer - Veronica ScottVeronica ScottVeronica Scott is an American television personality, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Scott is best known for being featured in the Current TV reality show The Fuchsia Girls, which follows her personal and professional life as she pursues a career in the fashion industry...
, American fashion designer, Fuchsia CEO, television personality - Veronica TaylorVeronica TaylorVeronica Taylor is an American voice actress. Taylor is best known for her dubbing work in English-language anime adaptations, in particular for voicing Ash Ketchum in the English dub of the Japanese anime, Pokémon....
, American voice actress - Veronica VeraVeronica VeraVeronica Vera is an American human sexuality writer and actress.Vera is best known for the films Times Square Comes Alive, Gerard Damiano's Consenting Adults, Mondo New York and Rites of Passion....
, American sexuality writer and actress - Veronica WilliamsVeronica Williams-Honours:With Brisbane Roar: W-League Premiership: 2008-09 W-League Championship: 2008-09...
, Australian football soccer player - Veronica VarlowVeronica VarlowTara Lee Heffner, better known by her stage name Veronica Varlow, is a burlesque dancer, pin-up model, actress, producer and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York...
, American dancer and actress
In fiction
- Veronica LodgeVeronica LodgeVeronica Lodge is a fictional character in the Archie Comics books series.-Fictional history and character:She is called both by her name Veronica and her nickname Ronnie...
, a rich teenage girl in the Archie Comics universe - Veronica MarsVeronica MarsVeronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
, a television series starring Kristen Bell as the title character - Veronica Ronnie MitchellRonnie MitchellVeronica Elizabeth "Ronnie" Branning is a fictional character from the British BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Samantha Womack. Ronnie and her sister Roxy were introduced by executive producer Diederick Santer in July 2007; Ronnie is the "ice" to Roxy's "fire"...
, a character from the television soap opera EastEnders - Veronica Sawyer, played by Winona RyderWinona RyderWinona Ryder is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition...
in the 1980s' teenage cult classic HeathersHeathersHeathers is a 1989 black comedy film starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. The film portrays four girls in a trend-setting clique at a fictional Ohio high school... - Veronica Reed, dominatrix mother of main character Marten Reed in the webcomic Questionable ContentQuestionable ContentQuestionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
- Veronica Madaraki, the surgically manufactured "sister" of the title character in the Franken FranFranken Fran-Track listing:# - # - # - # - # -...
manga - VeronicaVeronica (song)"Veronica" is a single from Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike, co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney. The song "Veronica" was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, and features Paul McCartney on his iconic Höfner bass...
, protagonist of a 1989 Elvis CostelloElvis CostelloElvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
song, his highest-charting in the United States.