minerval

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noun

A gift given in gratitude by a student to a teacher; financial compensation paid to a teacher for their services.

OriginLatin Minervālis →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

minerval1

nounminerval (plural minervals)

plural minervals

  1. archaicA gift given in gratitude by a student to a teacher; financial compensation paid to a teacher for their services.

    Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]

    1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068

Minerval2

nounMinerval (plural Minervals)

plural Minervals

  1. historicalA member of the early Bavarian Illuminati, ranking above a novice.

Origin

  1. LatinMinervālis
  2. Englishminerval

Learned borrowing from Latin Minervālis.

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