The corpus record — Latin

menis

menis · f

a little halfmoon, crescent

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mēnis — Lewis & Short

mēnis, ĭdis, f., = mhni/s,

I a little halfmoon, crescent, placed as an ornament at the beginning of books (post-class.): a primā menide libri, i. e. from the beginning, Aus. Prof. 25, 1.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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