Menerva

Menerva

1. Alternative form of Menrva (“Etruscan goddess”).

From Proto-Italic *Menezwā.

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

Menerva f sg (genitive Menervae); first declension

1. (Old Latin) alternative form of Minerva
   • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, The Orator's Education 1.4.17:

     Quid? non E quoque I loco fuit <ut> "Menerva" et "leber" et "magester" et "Diiove Victore," non "Diiovi Victori"?

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   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Pedestal from Lindus at Rhodes:

     L. Mr. Foli. . . . . .Menerva[i Lindiai

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First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Menerva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Menerva in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• Menerva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.