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Definitions: Vesta |
VestaNoun1. (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia. 2. The brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Vesta" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fireside hearth". |
Date "Vesta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Vesta \Ves"ta\, noun. [Latin expression Vesta, akin to Greek Vesta, the hearth of the house, and perhaps to Sanskrit ush to burn (see East), or perhaps to Sanskrit vas to dwell, and English was.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Vesta in Roman mythology, was the Home-goddess, called by the Greeks "Hestia." She was custodian of the sacred fire brought by AEneas from Troy. This fire was lighted afresh annually on March day, and to let it go out would have been regarded as a national calamity. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Vesta was the virgin goddess of home and hearth in Roman mythology, analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology.Vesta was introduced in Rome by King Numa Pompilius. She was a native Roman deity (some authors suggest received from the Sabin cults), presumably the daughter of Saturn and Opi (or Rea). However, the similarity with the cult of Greek Hestia is notable. Vesta too protected the familiar harmony and, extensively, the State.
Apollo and Neptune had asked for her in marriage, but she refused both, preferring to preserve her virginity, which symbol was the eternally lit fire in her temple.
One of her priestesses was Rea Silvia, who with Mars conceived Romulus and Remus (see founding of Rome).
In her temple in Rome, below the Aventine Hill (also called Tempio della Fortuna Virile), in which the sacred fire of the Roman state burned, maintained by the Vestal Virgins. Every March 1, the fire was renewed and it burned until AD 394.
The Vestales were her priestesses, one of the few full time clergy positions in Roman religion. The priestesses had to respect 30 years of absolute chastity (they were also called the Vestal Virgins). They could not show an excessive care of their person, and obviously they could not let the fire go out. If a Vestal broke her vow of chastity before the 30 years were up, she was condemned to be buried alive in the Campus Sceleris (camp of damned people); this is what probably happened to Rea Silvia too.
The Vestales were allowed to (or perhaps were forced to) wear a special tunica, a sort of simple habit that they use for the temple and for the everyday's life (while in Rome usually there was a habit for the house and another for the outdoor). By this habit is named the dressing-gown (in italian Vestaglia) and the more generic veste (dress).
Vesta was celebrated at the Vestalia, June 7 to 15. On the first day, the penus Vestae, (the sanctum sanctorum of her temple) was opened, for the only time during the year, for women to make sacrifices in.
See also: Hestia
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Vesta is a city located in Redwood County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 339.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vesta."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Course | Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration. |
Fuel | Brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock. |
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Crosswords: Vesta |
| English words defined with "Vesta": Hestia ♦ solar system ♦ vestal, vestal virgin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Vesta": 56292 ♦ Appiades ♦ Consentes Dii ♦ Gods ♦ Nine Gods. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vesta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (vest, waistcoat, waist-coat), Dutch (Vesta), Hungarian (Vesta), Latin (Vesta), Portuguese (Vesta), Provencal (jacket), Serbo-Croatian (vesta). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov (1924) | |
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 | These two surface maps of the asteroid Vesta are derived from Hubble telescope images taken ...Credit: NASA. |  | Hubble telescope images of the asteroid Vesta are providing astronomers with a glimpse of the ...Credit: NASA. |
 | Montage of images of the asteroid Vesta taken by the Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2.Credit: NASA. |  | Vesta Tilley, three-quarter length portrait, dressed in men's clothing, facing front] / Steinberg, Fifth Avenue, Cor. 125th St., New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yacht Vesta.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yacht Vesta.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yacht Vesta.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yacht Vesta.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Vesta" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Vesta" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.91% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Vesta" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vesta | First name Female | 6,000 | 1,178 |
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| "Vesta" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a fireside hearth". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Vesta." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hestia | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Vesta | Female | Roman Mythology | Hestia |
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| USA | Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. |
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1. Vesta, MN (city, FIPS 66982) |
Expression using "Vesta": vesta match. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vesta | 188 |
vesta williams | 25 |
aloe vesta | 20 |
vesta insurance | 19 |
dipping grill vesta | 15 |
fire insurance vesta | 13 |
temple vesta | 11 |
vesta pro | 9 |
asteroid vesta | 8 |
goddess vesta | 8 |
home show vesta | 7 |
vesta insurance group | 7 |
holding vesta | 6 |
etnies vesta | 6 |
alta vesta | 6 |
shelby vesta | 5 |
dianna vesta | 5 |
vesta wireless | 5 |
inc vesta | 5 |
philips vesta | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "Vesta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кибрит, 'осъчен Кибрит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Vesta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Vesto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | allumette bougie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zuendkerze (igniter plug, spark plug, sparking plug, wax match), Reibkerze (wax match). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Εστία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Vesta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fiammifero di cera (wax match). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | foaddan kereagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estavay Fósforo De Cera (wax match). (various references) 'осковая Спичка, 'еста. (various references) vesta. (various references) cerilla (match, taper, wax, wax match). (various references) Ocak Tanrıçası, Þamalı Kibrit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Vesta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Vesta": vestal, vestally, vestals, vestas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Vesta": harvestable, investable. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Vesta" (pronounced ve"stu) |
| 4 | -e" s t u | celesta, Cuesta, Fiesta, podesta, Testa. |
| 3 | -s t u | Arista, canasta, Costa, pasta, robusta, vista. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stave. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: ates, aves, east, eats, etas, sate, save, seat, seta, tavs, teas, vase, vast, vats, vest, vets. | |
-2 letters: ate, ave, eat, eta, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tav, tea, vas, vat, vet. | |
-3 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: averts, avoset, savate, starve, staved, staves, traves, valets, vaster, vestal, vestas. | |
+2 letters: actives, advects, advents, adverts, aviates, avocets, avosets, bravest, caveats, datives, estival, gravest, harvest, levants, naivest, natives, octaves, savates, servant, solvate, spaviet, starved, starver, starves, stative, suavest, taverns, thraves, travels, vacates, vaguest, vainest, varlets, vastest, vastier, veritas, versant, vestals, vestral, vistaed, waviest, zemstva. | |
+3 letters: aestival, captives, cavettos, cavities, centavos, deviants, deviates, distaves, elatives, elevates, estivate, festival, gavottes, harvests, heaviest, heavyset, leaviest, levators, loveseat, naivetes, navettes, obviates, outraves, overacts, overcast, overeats, overfast, overpast, oversalt, overstay, overtask, ovulates, privates, salivate, sanative, savagest, savviest, sedative, servants, solvated, solvates, starvers, statives, stravage, subovate, tavernas, traverse, travesty, travoise, tsarevna, valuates, vanities, vantages, variates, varments, vastiest, vastness, vaulters, vaunters, vealiest, ventages, ventails, ventrals, versants, vesicant, vesicate, vestally, vestiary, vestigia, vestural, veterans, viatores, vibrates, vilayets, vintages, violates, virgates, vitalise, vitamers, vitiates, voltages, votaress, votaries, vulgates, wavelets. | |
+4 letters: ablatives, activates, activizes, additives, adjustive, adversity, advertise, advocates, aestivate, agentives, ambiverts, anteverts, arriviste, assertive, auditives, aventails, averments, avidities, bevatrons, bivalents, bloviates, causative, caveators, cavitates, cavorters, cervelats, chevalets, covenants, curatives, derivates, devastate, deviators, divagates, donatives, dovetails, duratives, elevateds, elevators, eluviates, enervates, estivated, estivates, evacuants, evacuates, evaluates, evocators, excavates, exuviates, favorites, festivals, fixatives, gravities, grievants, harvested, harvester, illatives, innovates, intervals, invertase, invocates, lavishest, laxatives, levanters, levatores, levigates, levirates, levitates, livetraps, locatives, loveseats, megavolts, motivates, naiveties, navicerts, navigates, negatives, observant, optatives, outbraves, outvalues, ovalities, overbeats, overcasts, overcoats, overhasty, overhates, overheats, overrates, oversalts, overstaff, overstate, overstays, overtakes, overtalks, overtasks, overtaxes, passivate, pavements, postcavae, privatest, privatise, pyruvates, ravigotes, relatives, renovates, revenants, salivated, salivates, savoriest, sedatives, severalty, shavetail, shortwave, stravaged, stravages, suavities, summative, sylvanite, takeovers, tantivies, taverners, timesaver, tipstaves, titivates, travelers, travelogs, traversal, traversed, traverser, traverses, travoises, trivalves, tsarevnas, tzarevnas, vacuities, valerates, validates, valvelets, vanadates, varietals, varieties, varsities, vasectomy, vastities, vastitude, vaticides, vaultiest, vegetates, venations, vendettas, venenates, venerates, venetians, veratrias, veratrins, veratrums, verbalist, veritates, versatile, vertebras, verticals, vesicants, vesicated, vesicates, vestigial, vestryman, vexations, vexatious, vicarates, viewdatas, vintagers, violaters, visitable, vitalised, vitalises, vitalizes, vitamines, vizirates, vocatives, volatiles, vulgarest. | |
+5 letters: absolutive, absorptive, accusative, activeness, activities, adjectives, adsorptive, advantages, advections, adventives, adventures, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, advisement, aestivated, aestivates, afterlives, aftershave, aggravates, alleviates, anchovetas, antinovels, antivenins, appositive, arrivistes, ascriptive, assaultive, asseverate, assumptive, autoclaves, aviatrices, aviatrixes, calmatives, captivates, causatives, clavierist, constative, conversant, cowlstaves, cultivates, curvatures, davenports, denervates, devaluates, devastated, devastates, devastator, deviations, driveshaft, elevations, estimative, estivating, estivation, evaluators, evanescent, evangelist, evaporates, evaporites, eventuates, eviscerate, evocations, excavators, exhaustive, extraverts, flagstaves, formatives, fricatives, gravestone, gravitases, gravitates, harvesters, harvesting, harvestman, harvestmen, incurvates, innervates, intervales, invertases, investable, jovialties, lavatories, leviathans, lixiviates, manservant, meatloaves, narratives, nativeness, nativities, negativism, negativist, nervations, nonnatives, novitiates, observants, operatives, outsavored, ovaritides, overassert, overcasted, overdrafts, overeaters, overmaster, overplants, overreacts, oversalted, overstaffs, overstated, overstates, overstayed, overstrain, overtasked, overtrades, overtrains, overtreats, overwaters, passivated, passivates, pikestaves, preharvest, prevalents, privateers, privatised, privatises, privatives, privatizes, purgatives, ravelments, ravishment, relativism, relativist, renovators, retrievals, revaluates, revanchist, revelators, revertants, revictuals, revitalise, revivalist, riverboats, savouriest, separative, shavetails, shortwaves, shrievalty, simulative, sovranties, starveling, stavesacre, stravaiged, subvariety, sylvanites, televisual, tentatives, timesavers, timesaving, tittivates, tovariches, tovarishes, transitive, transvalue, transverse, travellers, traversals, traversers, traversing, travestied, travesties, trivialise, univalents, uvarovites, vacantness, vaccinates, vacillates, vagilities, vagotomies, valentines, validities, vanitories, vapidities, vaporettos, variegates, varletries, vasoactive, vasotomies, vastitudes, vastnesses, vegetables, venalities, venerators, ventifacts, ventilates, veracities, veratrines, verbalists, vernations, vesicating, vesiculate, vestiaries, vestibular, vestmental, vicariates, victualers, videotapes, vigilantes, vindicates, vitalities, vivacities, vizierates, vocalities, volatilise, voracities, votaresses, whatsoever. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 73 74 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . ... - .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e s t a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0073 0074 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671858667 |
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