FromMonēta, an Italian goddess conflated withJuno after her introduction (cf.evocatio) to Rome in344 BC. Her temple was used by the Roman mint from273 BC until it was destroyed by fire and moved to theColosseum byDomitian inAD 84. The usual derivation—given byCicero and theByzantineSuda— is frommonēre(“towarn, toadvise”) + a variant of-īta, but it is now considered more likely the earlier Italian goddess's name came from a form ofAncient Greekμονήρης(monḗrēs,“solitary,alone,unique”).(Canthis(+) etymology besourced?)
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