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Laverna

Laverna

English

Proper noun

Laverna

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

Latin

Proper noun

Laverna f ‎(genitive Lavernae); first declension

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

References

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
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Laverna”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.