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minæ

minæ is the plural of mina.

Meaning of mina

Noun

mina (plural minas or minae)

  1. (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
    • What then of the actual fine of thirty minae Socrates proposes? Thirty minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years′ wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a library of three thousand philosophy books, if the...1989, C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato′s Apology of Socrates, page 174
  2. (historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent, approximately 400-700 grams.
    • Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.1999, Andrew George, transl., Gilgamesh, section VI

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Questions about minæ

What is minæ the plural of?
Minæ is the plural of mina.

Words near minæ in the dictionary

  1. minyen
  2. Minyip
  3. minyon
  4. minyonim
  5. minyulite
  6. minæ
  7. Minæan
  8. Minæans
  9. Mio
  10. MIOA
  11. Mioarele

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