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
If a man without the consent of the owner has cut down a tree in an orchard, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
But it appears to have consisted in the litigant being compelled to eat a mina weight of some magically concocted food and to drink the contents of an inscribed bowl.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Aristophanes purchased land and a house for more than five talents, supplied choruses for himself and his father for five thousand drachmae, and spent eighty minae as Trierarch.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
Aye, you will lay out three minae and, as my friend, you will reckon twelve against me.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
And while not spending more than twenty-five minae of the five thousand drachmae charged for their father's monument, he charged half that amount to himself, and half to them.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
The whole expense was here shown to have been forty-eight minae, so that he charged them with what his whole expense had been.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
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
If a people had existed who could exchange gold for all these goods, the pharaoh would have had yearly one hundred and thirty-three thousand minas of gold.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
Thus we have an advance of ten minas of silver, Carchemish standard, seventy-five sheep, one cow, made by Ashurbânipal's chief steward to four men, ana pûḫi.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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
The price is always reckoned at six minas of wool for a shekel.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Common gold The president, governor, and captain-general of these islands receives an annual salary of eight thousand pesos de minas, or thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-five pesos and two tomins. 13U235 pesos, 2 tomins.
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