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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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
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
A similar kind of loan is half a mina of silver to pay the price of a piece of land.
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
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
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 Richard Crawley
The presents of the Libyans were graciously accepted by Cambyses, but the 500 minae which the Cyrenaeans sent, he threw with his own hand among the people because "it was too little."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
And to such the two minae per annum, paid by the Lesbians from the produce of each κλῆρος, would appear a reasonable if not a sumptuous provision of livelihood.
From On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay by Hugh E. (Hugh Exton) Seebohm
How have I delighted in seeing the pretty variegated parrots, minas, and pigeons fly from the basket when opened in my verandah!
From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by William Crooke
In return he sent to Akhenaton two minas of enamel, and some jewels for his daughter, who was in the Egyptian royal harem.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Nabonidus paid, on his accession, to the temple at Sippara, five minas of gold.
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
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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