Etymograph

English

Minerva

Minerva comes from Latin Minerva.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMinerva
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1798same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMinerva
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1798same form

Earliest quotation: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author’s Preface: “In many works of this ſpecies, the hero is…”

Every English word from Latin Minerva

Another origin of Minerva

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentMinerva
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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