minae

See also: mina, minä, and minæ

English

Alternative forms

• minæ

Noun

minae

1. plural of mina

Anagrams

• Maine, maine, I mean, amine, animé, -amine, manie, Emina, anime

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nae̯/, [ˈmɪnäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ne/, [ˈmiːne]

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?”

     “[And] 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

• minor

Descendants

• Portuguese: ameia

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

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minis uti