hemina Latin · revision 33735

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc ἡμίνα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [heːˈmiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈmiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hēmīna''' ''f'' (genitive hēmīnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also written ''ēmīna'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and in manuscripts ''haem-'', ''him-'' or ''hym-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἡμίνα|tr=hēmína|t=half-measure]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) which Köbler connects with [[m|grc|ἡμι-|tr=hēmi-|t=half]] and [[ine-pro|*sēmi-|t=half]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus, who has it once, and Cato,^(TLL) who uses it for wine;^(Lewis & Short 1879) the Plautus passage, in the ''Miles gloriosus'', is also of wine.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a measure of half a sextarius for liquids and also for dry goods:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus measures water, oil, vinegar and wheat by it, and Seneca blood.^(Georges 1913) Persius has the unjust heminae, false measuring vessels, broken by an aedile.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The TLL notes it as the Latin for the Greek cotyla.^(TLL) British medieval texts use it for a liquid measure: Gildas' penitential prescribes a Roman hemina of milk, and a monastic customary cites the Rule of Saint Benedict on a hemina of wine a day.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of wine.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of a wine ration.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of water, oil and wheat.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius, of measuring vessels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – A liquid measure of wine or milk in monastic rules.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|measure]] for liquids or dry goods, half a [[sextārius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A vessel holding one hemina.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A liquid measure, perhaps about half a [[m|en|pint]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[hēmīnārium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sextārius]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Hēmina'' was also the cognomen of the historian Lucius Cassius Hemina.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}