minum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mina, minae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Science
- Geography:
- Near East
Greek weight unit (100 drachma/one pound); its weight of silver (1/60 talent);; mine (exploding); (Cal);; threats (pl.), menaces; warning signs, evil omens/prognostications; pinnacles;
gen. pl.
Examples
- P
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...tIbi illam nolo uendere, coges me? AE. Minume. SA. Namque id metui. AE. Neque uendundam censeo, quae liberast..." - C
Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...Consul septimum viam Flaminiam a[b urbe] Ari[minum refeci pontes]que omnes praeter Mulvium et Minucium..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...annua imperia binosque imperatores sibi fecere: eo modo minume posse putabant per licentiam insolescere animum humanum..."