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mina

mina · f

A Greek weight of a hundred Attic drachmas, a mina

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Where it lives

Truculentus 4 · 4.88/10k
Poenulus 3 · 2.72/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mĭna — Lewis & Short

mĭna (mna, ae, f., = mna=.

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 107),

I 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; id. Poen. 2, 21; 5, 5, 8 al.—Also absol.: mina, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 2; id. Ps. 3, 2, 87; id. Poen. 5, 6, 22 al.; Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91; id. Leg. 2, 27, 68: minae bonae mala opera partae, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144.—

B Auri, the mina of gold, of five times the value of the silver one: alia opust auri mina, Plaut. Truc. 5, 44; id. Mil. 5, 27.

2. mĭna — Lewis & Short

mĭna, ae, f.

I 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.—

II Subst.: mĭna, ae, f.: minam Aelius vocitatam ait mammam alteram lacte deficientem, quasi minorem factam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mina (scan p. 427; entry #6867).

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