Vesta

See also: vesta, vešta, vésta, and vēsta

English

Vesta's planetary symbol ⟨⚶⟩

Original symbol, ⟨🝷⟩

Etymology

From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία (hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία (Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “abide dwell”).

Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛstə/

Proper noun

Vesta

1. (Roman mythology) The virgin goddess of the hearth, fire, and the household, and therefore a deity of domestic life. The Roman counterpart of Hestia.
2. A female given name from Latin in occasional use.
3. (astronomy) The fourth asteroid discovered, and second largest, (4) Vesta.

Synonyms

• (astronomy, astrology): ⚶, formerly 🝷

Coordinate terms

• (Eternal Virgin Goddesses): Hestia, Artemis/Diana, Athena/Minerva

Derived terms

• vestal
• vestal virgin
• Vestan
• Vestian
• vestoid

Translations

Roman goddess

• Arabic: فِسْتَا f (fistā)
• Cherokee: ᏪᏍᏔ (westa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維斯塔 / 维斯塔 (Wéisītǎ)

• Esperanto: Vesto (eo)
• Finnish: Vesta (fi)
• French: Vesta (fr) f
• Greek: Βέστα (el) f (Vésta)
• Irish: Veiste f
• Japanese: ウェスタ (Wesuta), ヴェスタ (Vesuta)
• Korean: 베스타 (Beseuta)
• Marathi: व्हेस्टा f (vhesṭā)
• Polish: Westa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Vesta (pt) f
• Russian: Ве́ста (ru) f (Vésta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ве̏ста f

  Roman: Vȅsta (sh) f

• Swahili: Vesta

asteroid

• Arabic: فِيسْتَا f (fīstā)
• Cherokee: ᏪᏍᏔ (westa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灶神星 (zh) (Zàoshénxīng), 維斯塔 / 维斯塔 (Wéisītǎ)

• Esperanto: Vesto (eo)
• Finnish: Vesta (fi)
• French: Vesta (fr) f
• Greek: Εστία (el) f (Estía)
• Japanese: ベスタ (Besuta)
• Korean: 베스타 (Beseuta)
• Marathi: व्हेस्टा m (vhesṭā)
• Russian: Ве́ста (ru) f (Vésta)
• Spanish: Vesta f
• Swahili: Vesta
• Vietnamese: Vesta, sao Táo Thần

See also

• (mythology): Vesta (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (astronomy): 4 Vesta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Avest., stave, vates, evats, Stave, Sveta

Estonian

Proper noun

Vesta

1. (Roman mythology) Vesta
2. (astronomy) Vesta
3. a female given name from Latin

Related terms

• Veste

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛs.ta/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Vesta f

1. (Roman mythology) Vesta
2. (astronomy) Vesta

Synonyms

• (astronomy, astrology): ⚶

See also

• Vesta (mythologie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• (4) Vesta on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• vaste

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *Westā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell, reside, live in”); see also Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), Old High German wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “to abide, to dwell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯es.ta/, [ˈu̯ɛs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈves.ta/, [ˈvɛst̪ä]

Proper noun

Vesta f (genitive Vestae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology, religion) Vesta, goddess of the hearth and the household, equivalent to Greek Hestia.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.283–288:

     cur sit virginibus, quæris, dea culta ministris? / inveniam causas hac quoque parte suas. / ex Ope Iunonem memorant Cereremque creatas / semine Saturni; tertia Vesta fuit. / utraque nupserunt, ambæ peperisse feruntur; / de tribus impatiens restitit una viri.

     Why, you ask, is the goddess tended by virgin ministers? I’ll discover the true causes for this as well. They say that Juno and Ceres were born of Ops by Saturn’s seed; Vesta was the third daughter. The other two married, both reported to have borne children; of the three, one remained who could not bear a husband.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Vesta	Vestae
genitive	Vestae	Vestārum
dative	Vestae	Vestīs
accusative	Vestam	Vestās
ablative	Vestā	Vestīs
vocative	Vesta	Vestae

Derived terms

• Vestālia
• Vestālis

Further reading

• “Vesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Vesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Vesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1666/3.
• Vesta in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3450
• “Vesta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin Vesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛsta/

Proper noun

Vesta

1. (mythology) The Roman goddess of the hearth and home; Vesta.

Descendants

• English: Vesta

References

• “Vesta, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-31.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛs.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛs.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛs.ta/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʃ.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʃ.tɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛʃ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: Ves‧ta

Proper noun

Vesta f

1. (Roman mythology) Vesta (goddess of domestic life)

Related terms

• Héstia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋêsta/
• Homophones: vȅsta
• Hyphenation: Ves‧ta

Proper noun

Vȅsta f (Cyrillic spelling Ве̏ста)

1. (Roman mythology) Vesta (Roman goddess)

Declension

Declension of Vesta

	singular
nominative	Vȅsta
genitive	Veste
dative	Vesti
accusative	Vestu
vocative	Vesto
locative	Vesti
instrumental	Vestom