mina
Americannoun
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minae,
plural
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minas
plural
noun
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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
Bultâ has received one-third of a mina of silver from Marduk-nâṣir-apli.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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
The Syracusan people solemnise, at the cost of two hundred minae, the funeral of this man, the Corinthian Timoleon, son of Timodemus.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
Understand that you are sent hence valued at twenty minae.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
This proved that he had received a hundred minae loaned out on interest on a mortgage, and two thousand drachmae, and valuable furniture; also there came in every year corn from the Chersonesus.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
Aristotle, we are told, possessed a somewhat extensive library; and Plato is recorded to have paid the large sum of one hundred minae for three small treatises of Philolaus the Pythagorean.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
And he left for his wife twenty minae and thirty Cyzicene staters.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
For 30 minas, see Assyrian version, Tablet VI, 189, as the weight of the two horns of the divine bull.
From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Morris Jastrow
Thus Nikkal-iddina borrowed of the temple of Bêlit of Akkad a vessel of silver, weight fifteen minas, when the Elamites invaded the land.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Usually it was an amount of silver, one shekel up to three minas.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
“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 Charles Pears
A good example showing all sides is the following bond for three minas due from D to L. G and W come in and guarantee that D will pay; if not, they will.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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