Vesta
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From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία(hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία(Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan(“to be”), Gothic wisan( wisan), Sanskrit वसति(vasati, “abide dwell”).
Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.
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Vesta
Roman goddess of hearth and home, late 14c., corresponding to, and perhaps cognate with, Greek Hestia, from hestia "hearth," from PIE root *wes- (3) "to dwell, stay" (source also of Sanskrit vasati "stays, dwells," Gothic wisan, Old English, Old High German wesan "to be"). As the name of a planetoid from 1807 (Olbers).
