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
And those in the gulfs are large and rough, and most of them are of a black colour, but some of them are rather red; and some of the large ones even weigh a mina.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The Sumerian laws seem to regard the marriage-tie as dissoluble on the part of the man by an act of simple repudiation, accompanied by a solatium, fixed at half a mina.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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
With these the Lesbians agreed to pay a rent of two minae a year for each allotment, and cultivated the land themselves.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard
But they also possess properties and extensive estates in the country of your ruined allies, bringing in incomes of a talent to Philocrates and thirty minae to the defendant.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace
Forty-four minae are due to him, both principal and interest.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
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
Hares started up in alarm and bounded away, grey partridges whirred up and yellow-beaked minas flew off chattering indignantly.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
“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
Usually it was an amount of silver, one shekel up to three minas.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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 Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
I am convinced that: the faithful Larissa converted her love into several minas.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Seltzer, Thomas
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