Egeria Definition

ĭ-jîrē-ə
noun
Any woman who acts as an advisor.
Webster's New World

A patroness.

Wiktionary
A nymph who advised Numa, second king of Rome.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Egeria
pronoun

(Roman mythology) A nymph or minor goddess from Roman mythology.

Wiktionary

(astronomy) 13 Egeria, the asteroid.

Wiktionary
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Origin of Egeria

  • After Egeria , Roman nymph or goddess and adviser to Numa Pompilius, a legendary Roman king

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin Egeria.

    From Wiktionary

Egeria Sentence Examples

  • The honour of first sounding really oceanic depths belongs to " Egeria," " Waterwitch," " Dart," " Penguin," " Stork," Sir James Clark Ross, who made some excellent measurements and " Investigator."

  • He derived his inspiration from his wife, the nymph Egeria, whom he used to meet by night in her sacred grove.

  • A great responsibility for this defeat of the liberal and republican bourgeoisie, whom they represented, is to be laid upon Madame Roland, the Egeria of the party.

  • The Greek nymphs, after the introduction of their cult into Latium, gradually absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Carmentis, Fons), while the Lymphae (originally Lumpae), Italian water-goddesses, owing to the accidental similarity of name, were identified with the Greek Nymphae.

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