MINERVAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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

Perhaps inherited from Proto-Italic *Menezwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”). The term may be compared to Sanskrit मनस्विन् (manasvín, “full of mind or sense”). However, Fortson doubts this comparison, arguing that the term is attested late and could be formed productively within Sanskrit.

Another hypothesis by Clayton (2024) suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ménwr̥ (“thought”), from the same root above.

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.

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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 380-381
• Clayton, John (2024). Minerva, caterva, & sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix. East Coast Indo-European Conference, July 2, 2024, Athens, GA.
• Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017), “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter, pages 838-839