mina
Americannoun
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minae,
plural
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minas
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mina
1570–80; < Latin < Greek mnâ < Semitic; compare Hebrew māneh mina
Example Sentences
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However, if he were a commoner, he was expected to pay only one-third of a mina of silver.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
If no bride price had been paid and the husband was a noble, he was required to pay his wife one mina of silver, the equivalent of about a year’s wage for an average worker.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Sumerian texts feature the earliest mentions of a weight unit, the mina, which tipped the scales at about 500 grams, or 18 ounces.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Ten silver shekels of this weight could therefore without any further trouble be exchanged for the fiftieth of the gold mina, or gold shekel of the light gold talent.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
Thus a man gave a slave and a mina and a half of silver for his wife to her mother,277 but it is not clear whether or not this was to buy her.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
You've already got ten minae with you; or reckon up the account: thirty minae I gave for your freedom— PHILE.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
With verbs of buying and selling, price is designated by the Ablative; as— servum quīnque minīs ēmit, he bought the slave for five minae.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Understand that you are sent hence valued at twenty minae.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
And he left for his wife twenty minae and thirty Cyzicene staters.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
The amount of the fine was two thousand minae, two for each heavy-armed soldier, as the law prescribes.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
He also made weights corresponding with the coinage, sixty-three minas going to the talent; and the odd three minas were distributed among the staters and the other values.
From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
There are ten Commissioners for Repairs of Temples, elected by lot, who receive a sum of thirty minas from the Receivers-General, and therewith carry out the most necessary repairs in the temples.
From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
An expensive physician from Corinth was called who promised to cure me for two minas, and he was given half that amount in advance.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
My father, you said, 'When I shall go to Dur-Ammi-Zaduga, I will send you a sheep and five minas of silver.'
From Hebrew Life and Times by Harold B. (Harold Bruce) Hunting
Nabonidus paid, on his accession, to the temple at Sippara, five minas of gold.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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