Nerva

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈner.u̯a/, [ˈnɛru̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈner.va/, [ˈnɛrvä]

From nervus (“sinew; vigor”).

Nerva m sg (genitive Nervae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Nerva, a Roman emperor

First-declension noun, singular only.

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View of the river

Nerva f sg (genitive Nervae); first declension

1. A small river in Hispania Tarraconensis, probably the Nervión

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Nerva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nerva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Nerva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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