mina
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An old unit of weight or money in the ancient Middle East and Greece
- noun
- Archaic
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mina
- The archaeologist discovered a coin that was valued at one mina.
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And just to illustrate this point, this is a Seleucid Mina of the weight standard from the market.
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In ancient Greece, merchants traded goods for a mina of silver.
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With her goes a third of a mina of silver.
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That's 30 mina.
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In Luke 19:11-27, Jesus tells the parable of the ten minas.
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Historical texts often refer to a mina as a standard measurement of weight.
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Etymology
Mina (unit) comes from ancient Middle Eastern languages, like Akkadian manû and Greek mna, where the word named a fixed amount of 'weight' or 'money' used in trade. So a mina was a standard measure for buying and selling in the past.