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ves⋅tal

  [ves-tl]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the goddess Vesta.
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vestal virgin; chaste; pure.
–noun
3. vestal virgin.
4. a chaste unmarried woman; virgin.
5. a nun.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (adj.) < L vestālis. See Vesta, -al 1
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ves·tal   (věs'təl)   
adj.  

  1. Roman Mythology

    1. Of or relating to Vesta.

    2. Relating to or characteristic of the vestal virgins.

  2. Chaste; pure.

n.  

  1. Roman Mythology A vestal virgin.

  2. A woman who is a virgin.

  3. A nun.

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Word Origin & History

vestal  (adj.)
"chaste, pure, virgin," 1595, originally (1432) "belonging to or dedicated to Vesta," Roman goddess of hearth and home. The noun is recorded from 1579, short for Vestal virgin, one of four (later six) priestesses (L. virgines Vestales) in charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta in Rome. The goddess name, attested in Eng. from 1387, corresponds to, and may be cognate with, Gk. Hestia, from hestia "hearth," from PIE base *wes- "to dwell, stay" (cf. Skt. vasati "stays, dwells," Goth. wisan, O.E., O.H.G. wesan "to be").
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