mina

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an ancient Greek and Middle Eastern unit of money, commonly reckoned as one sixtieth of a talent

   The court imposed a fine of one mina on the defendant.

2. 2
   noun

   an ancient unit of weight, varying by place and period and equal in Greece to one sixtieth of a talent

   The merchant weighed the silver against a standard mina.

Borrowed through Latin mina from Ancient Greek mna, a unit of weight and value. The Greek term is of Semitic origin and is related to Hebrew maneh. Its value varied across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, but the Greek mina was conventionally one sixtieth of a talent.

Topics