minerva

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/mɪˈnɜː.və/

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/mɪˈnɜː.və/ · /mɪˈnɝ.və/

Definition of minerva

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name

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

“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.”

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

“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.”
93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
(poetic)Wisdom.
A surname from Italian.

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Learned borrowing from Latin Minerva.

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