Minerva

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɪˈnɜː.və/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Minerva (plural Minervas)

2. (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.
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     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.

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

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

• minerval

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.

• vermian

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɛrva]

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

• Menerva, Menrva (Old Latin)

Perhaps inherited from Proto-Italic *Menezwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”). The term may be compared to Sanskrit मनस्विन् (manasvín, “full of mind or sense”). However, Fortson doubts this comparison, arguing that the term is attested late and could be formed productively within Sanskrit.

Another hypothesis by Clayton (2024) suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ménwr̥ (“thought”), from the same root above.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnɛr.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnɛr.va]

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva, goddess of wisdom

First-declension noun.

• Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Vesta

• Minervālis

• → English: Minerva (learned)
• → Etruscan: 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌀 (menerva) (from Old Latin Menerva)
• → French: Minerve (learned)
• → Japanese: ミネルウァ (learned)
• → Portuguese: Minerva (learned)
• → Spanish: Minerva (learned)

• “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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 380-381
• Clayton, John (2024). Minerva, caterva, & sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix. East Coast Indo-European Conference, July 2, 2024, Athens, GA.
• Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017), “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics‎^[1], De Gruyter, pages 838-839

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

• Hyphenation: Mi‧ner‧va

Minerva f

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

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

• IPA^(key): /miˈneɾba/ [miˈneɾ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɾba
• Syllabification: Mi‧ner‧va

Minerva f

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

• Atenea