hemina

Borrowed from Latin hēmīna ("half- sextarius "), from Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā).

hemina (plural heminas or heminae ) (historical )

1. A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine, equivalent to around 0.27 L.

   Synonyms: cotyle , half- sextarius

   Coordinate terms: lingula (¹⁄₂₄ hemina), cyathus (¹⁄₆ hemina), acetabulum (¹⁄₄ hemina), quartarius (¹⁄₂ hemina), sextarius (2 heminas), congius (12 heminas), urna (48 heminas), amphora (96 heminas), culeus (1920 heminas)

   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:

     ...an Æginean Hemina of Hydromel ...

Borrowed from Spanish hemina , from Latin hēmīna , from Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā).

hemina (plural heminas or heminae )

1. (historical ) One of two traditional Spanish units of measure:
   1. A unit of dry measure, equivalent to around 23 liters.

      Coordinate terms: cuartillo (¹⁄₂₀ hemina), medio (¹⁄₁₀ hemina), celemin (¹⁄₅ hemina), cuartilla (³⁄₅ hemina), cuarto (1(削除) + (削除ここまで)¹⁄₅ heminas), fanega (2(削除) + (削除ここまで)²⁄₅ heminas), saco (4(削除) + (削除ここまで)⁴⁄₅ heminas), carga (9(削除) + (削除ここまで)³⁄₅ heminas)

   2. A variable unit traditionally defined as the land area that could be sown by one (dry measure) hemina of seed; typically between 500 and 1,000 square metres in size, depending on the crop and local climate.

• "hemina", in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Hai-men , Haimen , Heiman , haemin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā, "half- sextarius ").

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [heːˈmiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [eˈmiː.na]

hēmīna f (genitive hēmīnae ); first declension

1. hemina (a Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine, equivalent to around 0.27 L )

   Synonym: cotyla

   Coordinate terms: lingula (¹⁄₂₄ hemina), cyathus (¹⁄₆ hemina), acētābulum (¹⁄₄ hemina), quārtārius (¹⁄₂ hemina), sextārius (2 heminae), congius (12 heminae), urna (48 heminae), amphora (96 heminae), cūleus (1,920 heminae)

First-declension noun.

• Italian: mina , → emina
• → English: hemina
• → Spanish: hemina

• "hemina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "hemina", 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)
• "hemina", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hemina", in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin hēmīna ("half- sextarius "), borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā, "half- sextarius ").

• IPA ^(key): /eˈmina/ [eˈmi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: he‧mi‧na

hemina f (plural heminas ) (historical )

1. hemina (a Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine, equivalent to around 0.27 L )

   Synonyms: cuartillo (¹⁄₂₀ hemina), medio (¹⁄₁₀ hemina), celemín (¹⁄₅ hemina), cuartilla (³⁄₅ hemina), cuarto (1(削除) + (削除ここまで)¹⁄₅ heminas), fanega (2(削除) + (削除ここまで)²⁄₅ heminas), saco (4(削除) + (削除ここまで)⁴⁄₅ heminas), carga (9(削除) + (削除ここまで)³⁄₅ heminas)

2. hemina (a unit of dry measure, equivalent to around 23 liters )
3. hemina (a variable unit traditionally defined as the land area that could be sown by one (dry measure) hemina of seed; typically between 500 and 1,000 square metres in size, depending on the crop and local climate )

• → English: hemina

• "hemina", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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