# Minerva
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Minerva.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɪˈnɜː.və/
* (General American) IPA: /mɪˈnɝ.və/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)və

#### Proper noun

Minerva (plural Minervas)
* (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.
** 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “Author’s Preface”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC: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.
* (astronomy) 93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
* (poetic) Wisdom.

##### Coordinate terms

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

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Minerva.

#### Proper noun

Minerva (plural Minervas)
* A surname from Italian.

##### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Minerva is the 33810th 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɪnɛrva]

### Proper noun

Minerva f
* (Roman mythology) Minerva (Roman goddess)

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Menerva, Menrva (Old Latin)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *menerwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”). Compare Sanskrit मनस्विन् (manasvín, “full of mind or sense”).
Another hypothesis by Clayton (2024) suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ménwr̥ (“though”), from the same root above.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /miˈner.u̯a/, [mɪˈnɛru̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /miˈner.va/, [miˈnɛrvä]

### Proper noun

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension
* Minerva, goddess of wisdom

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Coordinate terms

* Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Vesta

#### Derived terms

* minerval

#### Descendants

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

### 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.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Minerva.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/ [miˈnɛɦ.vɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/ [miˈnɛɦ.vɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /miˈnɛʁ.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /miˈnɛɻ.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /miˈnɛɾ.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /miˈnɛɾ.bɐ/ [miˈnɛɾ.βɐ]
* Hyphenation: Mi‧ner‧va

### Proper noun

Minerva f
* (Roman mythology) Minerva (goddess of wisdom)

#### Derived terms

* voto de Minerva

### See also

* Atena

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin Minerva, from Proto-Italic *menezwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈneɾba/ [miˈneɾ.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -eɾba
* Syllabification: Mi‧ner‧va

### Proper noun

Minerva f
* (Roman mythology) Minerva
* a female given name from Latin

### See also

* Atenea