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mina, a silver mina (unit of currency; Greek μνᾶ)

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minarumque Noun: feminine genitive plural of mina

minarumque Noun: feminine genitive plural of minae

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mĭna (mna, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 107), ae, f., = μνᾶ.
  • A Greek weight of a hundred Attic drachmas, a mina, Plin. 21, 34, 109, § 185; Rhem. Fann. de Ponder. 32 sq. —
  • II A Greek money of account.
    • A The silver mina; this was of 100 Attic drachmae or Roman denarii (about $18.05 of our currency): argenti, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 16 (396); id. Poen. 2, 21 (469); 5, 5, 8 (1287) al.—Also absol.: mina, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 2 (403); id. Ps. 3, 2, 87 (876); id. Poen. 5, 6, 22 (1359) al.; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91; id. Leg. 2, 27, 68: minae bonae mala opera partae, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144 (734).—
    • B Auri, the mina of gold, of five times the value of the silver one: alia opust auri mina, Plaut. Truc. 5, 44 (936); id. Mil. 5, 27 (1420).
mĭna, ae, f.
  • adj., smooth: mina ovis, smooth-bellied, with no wool on the belly: mina (id est ventre glabro), Varr R. R. 2, 2, 6: minae oves, a play on the double meaning of the word (v. 1. mina, II.), Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 9 (653).—
  • II Subst.: mĭna, ae, f.: minam Aelius vocitatam ait mammam alteram lacte deficientem, quasi minorem factam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.

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