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).
双语例句
1. Fair Rhea Silvia had been shut up in the temple of Vesta.
美丽的丽阿·西耳薇娅被幽禁在维斯塔庙里.
来自辞典例句
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