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heminae

heminae is the plural of hemina.

Meaning of hemina

Noun (1)

hemina (plural heminas or heminae)

  1. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine, equivalent to around 0.27 L.
    • ...an Æginean Hemina of Hydromel ...1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
    Synonyms:
    cotyle, half-sextarius

Noun (2)

hemina (plural heminas or heminae)

  1. (historical) A unit of dry measure, equivalent to around 23 liters.
  2. (historical) A variable unit traditionally defined as the land area that could be sown by one (dry measure) hemina of seed; typically between 500 and 1,000 square metres in size, depending on the crop and local climate.

Questions about heminae

What is heminae the plural of?
Heminae is the plural of hemina.

Words near heminae in the dictionary

  1. hemimorphisms
  2. hemimorphite
  3. hemimorphites
  4. hemin
  5. hemina
  6. heminae
  7. heminas
  8. hemineglect
  9. heminephrectomies
  10. heminephrectomize
  11. heminephrectomized

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