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Minerva

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The goddess of wisdom, invention, the arts, and martial prowess. She came to be identified with the Greek Athena.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Roman mythology, one of the three chief divinities, the other two being Jupiter and Juno.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

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  • proper noun Roman mythology The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving; daughter of Jupiter and Juno

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin; see men- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin Minerva, from Etruscan, originally from Proto-Indo-European *men-es-wah₂, extended from the stem *men-s- (“mind”) (Sanskrit  (manas), compare manas-vin- ("full of mind or sense")), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).

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Examples

  • Barbara Minerva is a British anthropologist from Nottinghamshire, and the Cheetah is affiliated with the African god Urtzkartaga.

    Annotations for Trinity issue #41 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Cheles notes that two leaders depicted in these cycles, Bartolo's Scipio Africanus and Castagno's Queen Tomyris, hold a spear (the weapon of Minerva) with its point turned to the ground, a motif found at Urbino in the intarsiated door leading from the Sala dei Angeli to the Sala del Trono, where Minerva is paired with Apollo.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Minerva is inflicted herself, being a peep who has struggled with the disease and spent months locked up in her room, cut off from the world.

    slayground: The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld Little Willow 2006

  • At least 30 people crowded the Discount Drug Mart store in Minerva half an hour before a flu shot clinic started Wednesday.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • At least 30 people crowded the Discount Drug Mart store in Minerva half an hour before a flu shot clinic started Wednesday.

    Medpundit 2004

  • Vice-Chancellor, where she sat three days together for four hours at a time to hear verses and speeches, to hear herself called Minerva; nay, the public orator had prepared an encomium on her beauty, but being struck with her appearance, had enough presence of mind to whisk his compliments to the beauties of her mind.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • We've covered the story of the South Korean blogger who went by the name Minerva, and who was arrested for

    Techdirt 2009

  • We've covered the story of the South Korean blogger who went by the name Minerva, and who was arrested for

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  • We've covered the story of the South Korean blogger who went by the name Minerva, and who was arrested for

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  • We've covered the story of the South Korean blogger who went by the name Minerva, and who was arrested for

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