Editing Minerva (section)

==Etruscan Menrva==
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Stemming from an Italic moon goddess {{lang|mis|*Meneswā}} ('She who measures'), the [[Etruscan religion|Etruscans]] adopted the inherited Old Latin name, {{lang|la|*Menerwā}}, thereby calling her [[Menrva]]. It is presumed that her Roman name, Minerva, is based on this [[Etruscan mythology]]. Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools, justice and commerce. She was the Etruscan counterpart to Greek [[Athena]]. Like Athena, Minerva burst from the head of her father, Jupiter (Greek [[Zeus]]), who had devoured her mother (Metis) in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent her birth.

By a process of [[folk etymology]], the Romans could have linked her foreign name to the [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''men-'' in [[Latin language|Latin]] [[word]]s such as ''mens'' meaning "mind", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual. The word ''mens'' is built from the [[PIE|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''*men-'' 'mind' (linked with memory as in Greek [[Mnemosyne]]/μνημοσύνη and {{Transliteration|grc|mnestis}}/μνῆστις: memory, remembrance, recollection, {{Transliteration|sa|manush}} in Sanskrit meaning mind).

The Etruscan Menrva was part of a holy [[triad (relationship)|triad]] with [[Tinia]] and [[Uni (mythology)|Uni]], equivalent to the Roman [[Capitoline Triad]] of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva.