Veronica
Veronica is a female given name, the Latin form of the Greek name Berenice, Φερονίκη, which in turn is derived from Greek pherein (bring) and nikê (victory), meaning "she who brings victory". 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.
Media
Radio Veronica
Veronica (TV channel)
Music
Veronica (singer), American dance singer
"Veronica" (song), by Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney
Veronica Mehta, British Asian singer
The Veronicas, a twin-sister pop rock group from Australia
Verónica Orozco, Colombian actress and singer
"Media Verónica" (song), by Andrés Calamaro
Fiction
''Veronica'' (novel) is a 2005 novel by Mary Gaitskill
Veronica Lodge, a rich teenage girl in the Archie Comics universe
''Veronica Mars'', a television series starring Kristen Bell as the title character
''Cuentos para Verónica'', short stories by Poldy Bird
Veronica "Ronnie" Mitchell '', a character from the television soap opera EastEnders
Veronica Corningstone Saint Veronica
Veronica Belmont, Internet TV and webcasting host
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican track and field sprint athlete
Veronica Cartwright, American actress
Veronica Castro, Mexican actress
Veronica De La Cruz, CNN News anchor
Veronica Finn, former pop singer
Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice
Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist
Veronica Giuliani, Italian mystic
Veronica Lake, American film actress
Verónica Páez, Argentine marathon runner
Verónica Ribot, Argentine diver
Veronica Scott, fashion designer, Fuchsia CEO, television personality
Veronica (A) Rubio Vega, Ecuadorian Globalizer, McMaster University
Veronica Vasicka, photographer, radio show host & dj, and owner of Minimal Wave Records
Botany
Veronica, the Speedwells, a genus of plants in the Plantaginaceae
The genus Hebe, Scrophulariaceae, was formerly known as Veronica
Some cultivars and species are still named as such:
Veronica Lake Hebe, Veronica Hebe or Hebe Veronica is a garden cultivar of Hebe speciosa
Shrubby Veronica, Hebe recurva
Technology
V.E.R.O.N.I.C.A. (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives) — computer search engine for Gopher.
Other
Verónica, a technique in Spanish-style bullfighting
Translation
The word "Veronica" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Simple English.
Translation(s) in other languages: Bulgarian: Вероника, Czech: Veronika, Danish: Veronica (flertydig), Spanish: Verónica, French: Véronique (homonymie), Japanese: ヴェロニカ, Russian: Вероника.
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