Minaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).

名詞

mina (plural minas)

1. Alternative spelling of myna.

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin mina, from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ, “mna”). Compare maneh, from Biblical Hebrew מָנֶה (māne), as well as maund.

名詞

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. [From 15th C.]
   • 1989, C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato′s Apology of Socrates, page 174:

     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 price of Anaxogoras′ book is any guide (26d6-e2).

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. [From 16th C.]
   • 1999, Andrew George, transl., Gilgamesh, section VI:

     Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.

参照

• “mina”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “mina”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Iman, amin, NIMA, NAMI, Main, iman, main, mani, mnai, Naim, Mani, Mian, Amin

別の表記

• mna

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɪ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.na]

名詞

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. a Greek weight equal to 100 drachmas
2. a Greek silver coin equal to 100 drachmas

語形変化

First-declension noun.

語源 2

Borrowed from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore; mine”), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore; mine”).

別の表記

• mīnea

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.na]

名詞

mīna f (genitive mīnae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) ore; mine

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

語源 3

Clipping of hēmīna, from Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.na]

名詞

mīna f (genitive mīnae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a dry measure equivalent to two bushels

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

語源 4

From minor (“to threaten”).

名詞

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ambush

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

参照

• “mina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “mina”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “mina”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 682/1