I was building a list of names for a project, things like Edith, Erudite, Verity, and Minerva kept surfacing. I ended up using "Minerva Remington" as a character name. But I wanted to know what it actually meant.
The name Minerva comes from the Latin word mens, meaning "mind" or "intellect." She was the Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, trade, and strategic warfare, the equivalent of the Greek Athena. The etymological root is the same one that gives us "mental" and "mentor."
I was building a list of names for a project, things like Edith, Erudite, Verity, and Minerva kept surfacing. I ended up using "Minerva Remington" as a character name. But I wanted to know what it actually meant.
The name Minerva comes from the Latin word mens, meaning "mind" or "intellect." She was the Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, trade, and strategic warfare, the equivalent of the Greek Athena. The etymological root is the same one that gives us "mental" and "mentor."