Vesta

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See also: vesta, vešta, vésta, and vēsta

English

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Vesta's planetary symbol ⟨⚶⟩
Original symbol, ⟨🝷⟩

Etymology

From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία (hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία (Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “abide dwell”).

Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vesta

  1. (Roman mythology) The virgin goddess of the hearth, fire, and the household, and therefore a deity of domestic life. The Roman counterpart of Hestia.
  2. A female given name from Latin in occasional use.
  3. (astronomy) The fourth asteroid discovered, and second largest, (4) Vesta.

Synonyms

  • (astronomy, astrology): ⚶, formerly 🝷

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Estonian

Proper noun

Vesta

  1. (Roman mythology) Vesta
  2. (astronomy) Vesta
  3. a female given name from Latin

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛs.ta/
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Proper noun

Vesta f

  1. (Roman mythology) Vesta
  2. (astronomy) Vesta

Synonyms

  • (astronomy, astrology): ⚶

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Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *Westā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell, reside, live in”); see also Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), Old High German wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “to abide, to dwell”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vesta f (genitive Vestae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology, religion) Vesta, goddess of the hearth and the household, equivalent to Greek Hestia.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.283–288:
      cur sit virginibus, quæris, dea culta ministris? / inveniam causas hac quoque parte suas. / ex Ope Iunonem memorant Cereremque creatas / semine Saturni; tertia Vesta fuit. / utraque nupserunt, ambæ peperisse feruntur; / de tribus impatiens restitit una viri.
      Why, you ask, is the goddess tended by virgin ministers? I’ll discover the true causes for this as well. They say that Juno and Ceres were born of Ops by Saturn’s seed; Vesta was the third daughter. The other two married, both reported to have borne children; of the three, one remained who could not bear a husband.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Vesta Vestae
Genitive Vestae Vestārum
Dative Vestae Vestīs
Accusative Vestam Vestās
Ablative Vestā Vestīs
Vocative Vesta Vestae

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Vesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Vesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Vesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1666/3.
  • Vesta in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3450
  • “Vesta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin Vesta.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vesta

  1. (mythology) The Roman goddess of the hearth and home; Vesta.

Descendants

  • English: Vesta

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
  • Hyphenation: Ves‧ta

Proper noun

Vesta f

  1. (Roman mythology) Vesta (goddess of domestic life)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋêsta/
  • Homophones: vȅsta
  • Hyphenation: Ves‧ta

Proper noun

Vȅsta f (Cyrillic spelling Ве̏ста)

  1. (Roman mythology) Vesta (Roman goddess)

Declension

Declension of Vesta
singular
nominative Vȅsta
genitive Veste
dative Vesti
accusative Vestu
vocative Vesto
locative Vesti
instrumental Vestom
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