μνᾶ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mnâː/ → /mna/ → /mna/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mnâː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mna/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mna/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mna/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mna/

Noun

μνᾶ • (mnâ) f (genitive μνᾶς); first declension

1. sum of money equivalent to a hundred drachmas
2. weight equivalent to a hundred drachmas

Declension

First declension of ἡ μνᾶ; τῆς μνᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μνᾶ hē mnâ	τὼ μνᾶ tṑ mnâ	αἱ μναῖ hai mnaî
Genitive	τῆς μνᾶς tês mnâs	τοῖν μναῖν toîn mnaîn	τῶν μνῶν tôn mnôn
Dative	τῇ μνᾷ têi mnâi	τοῖν μναῖν toîn mnaîn	ταῖς μναῖς taîs mnaîs
Accusative	τὴν μνᾶν tḕn mnân	τὼ μνᾶ tṑ mnâ	τᾱ̀ς μνᾶς tā̀s mnâs
Vocative	μνᾶ mnâ	μνᾶ mnâ	μναῖ mnaî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mina

Further reading

• “μνᾶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μνᾶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μνᾶ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mina idem, page 529.
  • pound idem, page 630.