Definition of Minerva

1. Noun. (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena.

Category relationships: Roman Mythology
Generic synonyms: Roman Deity

Definition of Minerva

1. n. The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

Definition of Minerva

1. Proper noun. (Roman god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving; daughter of Jupiter and Juno ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Minerva

1. The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minerva

mineralogizing
mineralogy
mineraloid
mineraloids
mineralotropic
minerals
mineratrophic
minerogenesis
minerogenetic
minerogenic
miners
miners' canaries
miners' canary
miners' moss
miners moss
minerva (current term)
mines
mineshaft
mineshafts
minestrone
minestrones
minesweeper
minesweepers
minesweeping
minesweepings
minette
minettes
minever
minevers
minework

Literary usage of Minerva

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"minerva —NIOBE. minerva. minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter. She was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A name of minerva, sometimes called Pallas minerva. According to fable, Pallas was one of the Titans, of giant size, killed by minerva, who flayed him, ..."

3. Travels in Italy, Greece and the Ionian Islands: In a Series of Letters by Hugh William Williams (1820)
"BESIDES the magnificent Temple of minerva, the Acropolis has to boast of the ruins of the contiguous Temples of minerva Polias, ..."

4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"taken with them the worship of minerva, and the olive tree her emblem; ... Some have supposed the minerva of Athens to be a daughter of Cecrops ; but this ..."

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