Minerva

See also: minerva

English

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Minerva

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93 Minerva

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Proper noun

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.

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• minerval

Translations

goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts

Arabic: مِينِيرْفَا f (minirfā) Armenian: Միներվա (hy) (Minerva) Bulgarian: Мине́рва f (Minérva) Chinese: Mandarin: 彌涅耳瓦 / 弥涅耳瓦 (Míniè'ěrwǎ) Czech: Minerva (cs) f French: Minerve (fr) f Greek: Μινέρβα (el) f (Minérva) Japanese: ミネルバ (Mineruba) Korean: 미네르바 (Minereuba) Latin: Minerva (la) f Polish: Minerwa (pl) f Portuguese: Minerva (pt) f Russian: Мине́рва (ru) f (Minérva)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Minerva.

Proper noun

Minerva (plural Minervas)

1. A surname from Italian.

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• vermian

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɛrva]

Proper noun

Minerva f

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva (Roman goddess)

Declension

Declension of Minerva (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Minerva
genitive	Minervy
dative	Minervě
accusative	Minervu
vocative	Minervo
locative	Minervě
instrumental	Minervou

Further reading

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

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Minerva

Wikipedia ^la

 Minerva (discretiva) on Latin Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Menerva, Menrva (Old Latin)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva, goddess of wisdom

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Minerva	Minervae
genitive	Minervae	Minervārum
dative	Minervae	Minervīs
accusative	Minervam	Minervās
ablative	Minervā	Minervīs
vocative	Minerva	Minervae

Coordinate terms

• Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Vesta

Derived terms

• Minervālis

Descendants

• → 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)

References

• “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, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter, pages 838-839

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/ [miˈnɛɦ.vɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/ [miˈnɛɦ.vɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛɻ.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈnɛɾ.bɐ/ [miˈnɛɾ.βɐ]

• Hyphenation: Mi‧ner‧va

Proper noun

Minerva f

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

Derived terms

• voto de Minerva

See also

• Atena

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Minerva

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Minerva f

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

See also

• Atenea