Mina vs Zoe - What's the difference?
mina | zoe |
(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
* 1989 , C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato?s Apology of Socrates ,
(historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.
* 1999 , Andrew George, translating Gilgamesh , VI:
, a common spelling variant of .
* 1833 , Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance , Key&Biddle, page 112:
* 1921 , , Stardust , BiblioBazaar, LLC (2007), ISBN 1426437080, page 20:
As a pronoun mina
is mine.As an adverb zoe is
.mina
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .Etymology 2
From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)Noun
(en-noun)page 174,
- What then of the actual fine of thirty minae' Socrates proposes? Thirty ' minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years? wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a libary of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras? book is any guide (26d6-e2).
- Thirty minas' of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two ' minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.
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English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe , in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
- "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe ! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.