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say it: HEH-stee-uh
hestia is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) the goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vesta". It is pronounced /ˈhɛstiə/ — HEH-stee-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) the goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vesta
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hestia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.