Minervinus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Minerva

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin Minervīnus

From Minerva + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪ.nɛrˈwiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mi.nerˈviː.nus]

Proper noun

Minervīnus m sg (genitive Minervīnī); second declension

1. A masculine cognomen

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Minervīnus
genitive	Minervīnī
dative	Minervīnō
accusative	Minervīnum
ablative	Minervīnō
vocative	Minervīne

Derived terms

• Minervīna

References

• “Minervinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press