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語源 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

発音

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

固有名詞

Minerva (plural Minervas)

1. (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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     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.

2. (astronomy) 93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
3. (poetic) Wisdom.

等位語

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

関連する語

• minerval

語源 2

Borrowed from Italian Minerva.

固有名詞

Minerva (plural Minervas)

1. A surname from Italian.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Minerva is the 33810 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.

アナグラム

• vermian

語源

Uncertain. Connected with prōmenervō (“to warn”), Faliscan 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌖𐌀 (menerua), Oscan 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌄(𐌅𐌀𐌔) (menere(vas)), Paelignian minerua, and Etruscan 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌀 (menerva) in some manner. However, the details of the etymology are unclear:

• Perhaps from earlier *Meneswā, itself perhaps from *menes-wéh₂, which emerged from *ménos (“mind”). Fortson is, however, skeptical of the connection between the name of this goddess and the root *men- (“to think”), noting that the deity was worshipped at Etruria before reaching Rome and also that her associations with wisdom postdate her equation with Athena. There is possibly a direct parallel in the form of Sanskrit म॒न॒स्विन् (manasvín, “clever, wise”), though Fortson doubts the value of the Sanskrit comparison as it is attested at a late date, and belongs to a highly productive type of adjective formation. Rix has also proposed an Italic sound law whereby *-sw- became *-rw- already within Proto-Italic, in which case the pre-form should be reconstructed as *Menerwā. There is possibly another example in the form of Proto-Italic *katerwā (“company, band of people”). However, the existence of this rule is contentious, with Fortson citing Umbrian mersus (< *medeswos not *mederwos) as possible counterevidence. The raising of *e to i in Latin is perhaps also irregular, though minae attests to the same sound change and—according to De Vaan—there are no inherited sequences of /menV/ in Latin, allowing for the possibility that the phonological development is regular.
• Another hypothesis by Clayton (2024) suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ménwr̥ (“thought”), from the same root above. Clayton proposes that the noun was thematicized to *menwr-ā- in pre-Proto-Italic, before then metathesizing into *menrwā, which then evolved into Old Latin Menerva. For a possible example of a similar development, see also Proto-Italic *katerwā, which Clayton alternatively reconstructs as *katr̥wā.
• Another theory suggests that the term may derive from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁nos- (“moon”).
• Alternatively, the linguist Ranko Matasović considers it most likely that the name was borrowed from Etruscan.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɪˈnɛr.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [miˈnɛr.va]

固有名詞

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Minerva, goddess of wisdom

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

等位語

• Belisama, Artemis/Diana, Vesta

派生語

• Minervālis

派生した語

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

参照

• “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.