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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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
The frequent reference to the mina of Carchemish alongside the king's mina is eloquent as to the commercial eminence of the old Hittite capital.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
If Ardi-Shamash repudiates his wives, in one case, he loses house and furniture; in the other case, he pays one mina.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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
You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
He had a dog of remarkable size and beauty, for which he had paid seventy minae.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
And he left for his wife twenty minae and thirty Cyzicene staters.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
But yet, Sir, for learning's sake, allow us, instead of crowns, livres, and francs, to have the dowry expressed in minae and talents, and to express the date in Ides and Kalends.
From The Learned Women by Charles Heron Wall
“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 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
Charikles a mina gave him, fearing he might say Charikles himself was born in a suspicious way; And Nikias five minas gave.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart
Either half a shekel of silver, or two minas of wool, send to me, for my service, let him bring it.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Every year Belisunu shall give to Eli-eriṣa three GUR of corn, ten minas of bronze, and twelve ḲA of oil.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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