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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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 has no debt of corn or money due from a man on whom he has levied a distraint, for each such distraint he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Very curious is the penalty of being required to eat a mina of some food, possibly a magical compound, and drink an agannu pot of some drink.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
He never verifies bills, and then he once gave me in Stoa a slap on the shoulder—we will write four minae.
From So Runs the World by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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 Crawley, Richard
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
Now there is a temple of Athene in Lecythus, and Brasidas had proclaimed in the moment of making the assault that he would give thirty silver minae to the man first on the wall.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard
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
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 Hunting, Harold B. (Harold Bruce)
Thus:675 Forty minas of bronze, without rebate, which the sukallu imposed as a fine.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Two reales de minas, Chihuahua and Santa Eulalia, were established near by, and became the most thriving centers on the northern frontier.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
But, in this case, they are to pay interest two minas per annum.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Yet—" "Exactly ten minas and four drachmas, not counting the drinks for the guests.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Seltzer, Thomas
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