• minæ

minae

1. plural of mina

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.ne]

From Proto-Italic *(eks)menā (“projection”), *menā, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”). Compare minor, mōns and mentum.^[1]

minae f pl (genitive minārum); first declension

1. projecting points; pinnacles; battlements; parapets
2. (figuratively) threats; menaces; threatening perils
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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.)

First-declension noun, plural only.

• Galician: amea
• Italian: mina, mena
• Portuguese: ameia
• Spanish: almena

minae

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

• “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, 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