Vesta
pronunciation
How to pronounce Vesta in British English:
UK [ˈvestə]
How to pronounce Vesta in American English:
US [ˈvɛstə]
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- Noun:
- (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia
- the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
Word Origin
- Vesta
- Roman goddess of hearth and home, late 14c., corresponding to, and perhaps cognate with, Greek Hestia, from hestia "hearth," from PIE root *wes- (3) "to dwell, stay" (cognates: Sanskrit vasati "stays, dwells," Gothic wisan, Old English, Old High German wesan "to be"). As the name of a planetoid from 1807 (Olbers).
Example
- 1. The arrival of dawn at vesta also marks another significant achievement .
- 2. Larger bodies such as vesta , though , are more interesting .
- 3. Another thing that makes vesta planetlike is that it is split into distinct layers .
- 4. Nasa scientists have discovered that the giant vesta is a small planet , not an asteroid .
- 5. Another shocking discovery was that some meteorites found on earth actually originate from vesta .