Words from Roman Gods

• cereal: plant producing grain; relating to grain < Ceres
• jovial: cheerful, convivial, jolly < iovialis "of Jove" (Jupiter)
• junoesque: stately in bearing and beauty < Juno
• martial: of war, warlike < Mars
• mercurial: of Mercury (the god or the planet), characterized by eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury; quick and changeable (a mercurial temper) < Mercury
• saturnine: sullen, sardonic, bitter (characteristic of one born under the influence of the planet Saturn)
• venereal: sexually transmitted < venus ("desire")/Venus
• vestal: relating to Vesta, goddess of the hearth; pure, chaste; a virgin or nun