Laverna

English

Proper noun

Laverna

1. (Roman mythology) A goddess of thieves and impostors.
2. (chiefly US) A female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne.

Anagrams

• Avernal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Cognate with lucrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈu̯er.na/, [ɫ̪äˈu̯ɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈver.na/, [läˈvɛrnä]

Proper noun

Laverna f sg (genitive Lavernae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Laverna, the goddess of gain and patroness of rogues and thieves.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Laverna
genitive	Lavernae
dative	Lavernae
accusative	Lavernam
ablative	Lavernā
vocative	Laverna

Derived terms

• laverniō

References

• “Laverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Laverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Laverna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.