Minerva

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From Latin Minerva, from Etruscan, originally from Proto-Indo-European *men-es-weh₂, extended from the stem *men-s- (“mind”) (Sanskrit मनस् (manas, “mind”), compare मनस्विन् (manas-vin-, “full of mind or sense”)), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɪˈnɜː.və/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɪˈnɝ.və/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)və

Minerva (plural Minervas)

1. (Roman mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.
   • 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “Author’s Preface”, in W Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. , volume I, London: J Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J Robinson, , →OCLC:

     In many works of this ſpecies, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wiſe and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumſtances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate; and to act like goddeſſes of wiſdom, juſt come forth highly finiſhed Minervas from the head of Jove.

2. (astronomy) 93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
3. (poetic) Wisdom.

• (Eternal Virgin Goddesses): Athena, Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Hestia/Vesta

Borrowed from Italian Minerva.

Minerva (plural Minervas)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Minerva is the 33810^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 673 individuals. Minerva is most common among White (83.66%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Minerva”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 594.

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Minerva f

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva (Roman goddess)

• “Minerva”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Minerva”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Etruscan, originally from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”) (Sanskrit मनस् (manas), compare मनस्विन् (manas-vin-, “full of mind or sense”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /miˈner.u̯a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈner.va/,

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension

1. Minerva, goddess of wisdom

First-declension noun.

• Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Vesta

• → English: Minerva
• → French: Minerve
• → Japanese: ミネルウァ (Mineruwa) (learned)
• → Portuguese: Minerva
• → Spanish: Minerva

• “Minerva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Minerva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Minerva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin Minerva, from Etruscan.

• Hyphenation: Mi‧ner‧va

Minerva f

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva (goddess of wisdom)

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Minerva

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Borrowed from Latin Minerva, from Etruscan, originally from Proto-Indo-European *men-es-weh₂, extended from the stem *men-s- (“mind”) (Sanskrit मनस् (manas), compare मनस्विन् (manas-vin-, “full of mind or sense”)), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈneɾba/
• Rhymes: -eɾba
• Syllabification: Mi‧ner‧va

Minerva f

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva
2. a female given name from Latin

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