# hemina
## English
### Etymology

From Latin hemina (“half-sextarius”), from Ancient Greek, from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-: half”) + -ίνα (-ína, “-ina: forming nouns”). As a Spanish unit, via Spanish hemina.

### Noun

hemina (plural heminas or heminae)
* (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of $^5$⁄$_6$ Roman pound of wine and equivalent to about 0.27 L although differing slightly over time, used in English pharmacy into the 17th century.
** 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:...an Æginean Hemina of Hydromel ...
* (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 23 L, used particularly in Leon.
* (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, varying in size depending on the land's quality and used particularly in Leon.

#### Synonyms

* cotyle, half-sextarius, half-pint (Roman contexts)

#### Coordinate terms

* (Roman unit of measure): 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)
* (Spanish unit of volume): cuartillo ($^1$⁄$_{20}$ hemina), medio ($^1$⁄$_{10}$ hemina), celemin ($^1$⁄$_5$ hemina), cuartilla ($^3$⁄$_5$ hemina), cuarto (1+$^1$⁄$_5$ heminas), fanega (2+$^2$⁄$_5$ heminas), saco (4+$^4$⁄$_5$ heminas), carga (9+$^3$⁄$_5$ heminas)

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Hai-men, Haimen, Heiman, haemin

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἡμίνα (hēmína, “a half”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-: half”) + -ίνα (-ína, “-ina: forming nouns”).

### Noun

hēmīna f (genitive hēmīnae); first declension
* (historical) hemina, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.27 L

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* cotyla

#### Coordinate terms

* lingula ($^1$⁄$_{24}$ hemina), cyathus ($^1$⁄$_6$ hemina), acetabulum ($^1$⁄$_4$ hemina), quartarius ($^1$⁄$_2$ hemina), sextarius (2 heminae), congius (12 heminae) urna (48 heminae), amphora (96 heminae), culeus (1,920 heminae)

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “hemina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* hemina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hemina (“half-sextarius”), from Ancient Greek ἡμίνα (hēmína, “a half”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-: half”) + -ίνα (-ína, “-ina: forming nouns”).

### Noun

hemina f (plural heminas)
* (historical) hemina, half-sextarius (a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.27 L later used in medieval Spanish taxation)
* (historical) hemina (a traditional Leonese unit of dry measure equivalent to about 23 L)
* (historical) hemina (a traditional Leonese unit of land area of variable size depending on its quality)

#### Coordinate terms

* (Spanish unit of volume): cuartillo ($^1$⁄$_{20}$ hemina), medio ($^1$⁄$_{10}$ hemina), celemín ($^1$⁄$_5$ hemina), cuartilla ($^3$⁄$_5$ hemina), cuarto (1+$^1$⁄$_5$ heminas), fanega (2+$^2$⁄$_5$ heminas), saco (4+$^4$⁄$_5$ heminas), carga (9+$^3$⁄$_5$ heminas)

#### Descendants

* English: hemina

### Further reading

* “hemina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10