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View Name: Vesta


VESTA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Roman Mythology
PRONOUNCED: VES-tÉ™ (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
Probably a Roman cognate of HESTIA. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. A continuous fire, tended by the Vestal Virgins, was burned in the Temple of Vesta in Rome.
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