minae

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See also: mina, minä, and minæ

English

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Noun

minae

  1. plural of mina

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *(eks)menā (“projection”), *menā, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”). See Latin minor, mōns, mentum.

Noun

minae f pl (genitive minārum); first declension

  1. projecting points, pinnacles, battlements, parapets
  2. (figuratively) threats, menaces, threatening perils
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.43-44:
      “ Quid bella Tyrō surgentia dīcam, / germānīque minās?”
      “ why must I mention the war-dangers arising from Tyre, and our brother’s threats?”
      (Anna and Dido had taken Tyrian treasures when they fled from their murderous brother Pygmalion: Aeneid 1.340-364.)
Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative minae
genitive minārum
dative minīs
accusative minās
ablative minīs
vocative minae
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Galician: amea
  • Italian: mina, mena
  • Portuguese: ameia
  • Spanish: almena

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

minae

  1. inflection of mina:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive/dative singular

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “minae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 380

Further reading

  • “minae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “minae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "minae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • minae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    • (ambiguous) to use threats: minis uti
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