mina
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mina
1570–80; < Latin < Greek mnâ < Semitic; compare Hebrew māneh mina
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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
However, if he were a commoner, he was expected to pay only one-third of a mina of silver.
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
And you see the gash over there, all yellow and green, about three thousand feet down from the top—that is us, señor, the mina Santa Gertrudis.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
If he be a plebeian, he shall give her one-third of a mina of silver.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
All the property has been valued at more than a talent, and what I claim, I value at five minae and a thousand drachmae respectively.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
Understand that you are sent hence valued at twenty minae.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
I gave three minae for the two, besides the carriage.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
And in taxes he contributed for both no less than forty minae, and for the expedition to Sicily he spent a hundred minae.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
He had a dog of remarkable size and beauty, for which he had paid seventy minae.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
For we read:757 Six minas belong to A and B and are given to C the slave of B as capital.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
“Whoever shall withdraw from this agreement, Ashur and Shamash shall be his judges, he shall pay ten minas of silver and ten minas of gold, he shall pay it in the treasury of Bêlit.”
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Thus we read:756 Five minas and six hundred and thirty pots of aromatics belong to A and B as partners.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
“Yes; it’s just like those minas that we have got at home.—Give me a glass of water.”
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles
The judge laid on him a fine of two hundred and ten minas of copper.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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