hemina

See also: Hemina

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hemina (plural heminas or heminae) (historical)

2. 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 ...

Etymology 2

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

Noun

hemina (plural heminas or heminae)

1. (historical) One of two traditional Spanish units of measure:
   2. 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+¹⁄₅ heminas), fanega (2+²⁄₅ heminas), saco (4+⁴⁄₅ heminas), carga (9+³⁄₅ heminas)

   4. 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.

References

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

Anagrams

• Hai-men, Haimen, Heiman, haemin

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hēmīna	hēmīnae
genitive	hēmīnae	hēmīnārum
dative	hēmīnae	hēmīnīs
accusative	hēmīnam	hēmīnās
ablative	hēmīnā	hēmīnīs
vocative	hēmīna	hēmīnae

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, 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

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἡμῑ́νᾱ (hēmī́nā)bor.

Latin hēmīnalbor.

Spanish hemina

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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+¹⁄₅ heminas), fanega (2+²⁄₅ heminas), saco (4+⁴⁄₅ heminas), carga (9+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)

Descendants

• → English: hemina

Further reading

• “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