Laverna

Laverna

1. (Roman mythology) A goddess of thieves and impostors.
2. (chiefly US) A female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne.

• Avernal

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Cognate with lucrum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈu̯er.na/, [ɫ̪äˈu̯ɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈver.na/, [läˈvɛrnä]

Laverna f sg (genitive Lavernae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Laverna, the goddess of gain and patroness of rogues and thieves.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• laverniō

• “Laverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Laverna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Laverna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.