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Menerva
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English
Proper noun
Menerva
- Alternative form of Menrva (“Etruscan goddess”).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *Menezwā.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛˈnɛr.wa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [meˈnɛr.va]
Proper noun
Menerva f sg (genitive Menervae); first declension
- (Old Latin) alternative form of Minerva
- c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, The Orator's Education 1.4.17:
- Quid? non E quoque I loco fuit <ut> "Menerva" et "leber" et "magester" et "Diiove Victore," non "Diiovi Victori"?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Quid? non E quoque I loco fuit <ut> "Menerva" et "leber" et "magester" et "Diiove Victore," non "Diiovi Victori"?
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Pedestal from Lindus at Rhodes:
- L. Mr. Foli. . . . . .Menerva[i Lindiai
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- L. Mr. Foli. . . . . .Menerva[i Lindiai
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Menerva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Menerva in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “Menerva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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