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S vs Mina - What's the difference?

s | mina |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a pronoun mina is

mine.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    mina

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The myna bird.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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 , 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).
  • (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:
    • 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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