mina
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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
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
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 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)
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
For she did not dare trust herself to him at death, but gave to Antiphanes who was not a relative, but whom she trusted, three minae of silver for her burial, disregarding her own son.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
Ha! at twenty minae that expression were cheap.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
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 Seebohm, Hugh E. (Hugh Exton)
Why really, this is nothing at all—thirty minae, in comparison with the other expenses he has incurred in good living.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
There are ten Commissioners for Repairs of Temples, elected by lot, who receive a sum of thirty minas from the Receivers-General, and therewith carry out the most necessary repairs in the temples.
From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
He also made weights corresponding with the coinage, sixty-three minas going to the talent; and the odd three minas were distributed among the staters and the other values.
From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
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
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 Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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