Minerva Definition

mĭ-nûrvə
noun
A feminine name: dim. Minnie.
Webster's New World
The goddess of wisdom, technical skill, and invention: identified with the Greek Athena.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(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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Origin of Minerva

  • From Latin Minerva, from Etruscan, originally from Proto-Indo-European *men-es-wahâ‚‚, extended from the stem *men-s- (“mind") (Sanskrit [script?] (manas)[Devanagari?], compare manas-vin- (“full of mind or sense")), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin men-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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