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
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...tIbi illam nolo uendere, coges me? AE. Minume. SA. Namque id metui. AE. Neque uendundam censeo, quae liberast..."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..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...annua imperia binosque imperatores sibi fecere: eo modo minume posse putabant per licentiam insolescere animum humanum..."
