minae

• minæ

minae

1. plural of mina

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

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

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

minae f pl (genitive minārum); first declension

1. projecting points, pinnacles, battlements, parapets
2. (figuratively) threats, menaces

First-declension noun, plural only.

• minor

• Portuguese: ameia

minae

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

• “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