mna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mna or Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ).

Noun

mna (plural mnas or mnae or mnai)

1. Alternative form of mina (“weight unit”)
   • 1969, Martin Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 146:

     Four thousand Athenian cleruchs were settled on lands taken from the wealthiest Chalcidians, the prisoners taken from both Chalcidians and Boeotians were later ransomed at two mnai per person, and their fetters dedicated on the Athenian acropolis (5. 77. 1–2).

   • 1986, Timothy Long, Barbarians in Greek Comedy, Carbondale, Ill., Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     On hearing of an athlete’s consumption of two mnai worth of figs and six pints of wine at one sitting he exclaims, “Apollo, Horus, Sabazius!”

   • 1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 112:

     The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).

   • a. 2008, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, edited by Robert Parker, Athenian Myths and Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 149:

     If once again the restorations in IG I³ 7 are right, the text says that the Praxiergidai are to dress the statue with a chiton costing two mnai or pay a fine of one mna.

Anagrams

• 'Nam, 'nam, -man, AMN, MAN, Man, Man., N. Am., NAM, Nam, man, man.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

mna

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mnout

Related terms

Latin

Noun

mna f (genitive mnae); first declension

1. A Greek weight equivalent to that of 100 silver drachmas; roughly a pound

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• “mna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mna 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)
• mna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Swahili

Verb

mna

1. inflection of -wa na:
   1. second-person plural present affirmative
   2. mu locative class subject inflected present affirmative
   3. Locative (class 19) of kuwana: there is/are (inside, in an interior location)

Related terms

• kuna
• pana

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

mná

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.