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Definition of Hemina
1. n. A measure of half a sextary.
Definition of Hemina
1. Noun. (historical Roman antiquity) A measure of half a sextary. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hemina
1. a liquid measure [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hemina
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Origin: L, fr. Gr.
1. A measure of half a sextary.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemina
Literary usage of Hemina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1879)
"IL—ON hemina SANGUINIS IN SENECA AND JEROME. (Read before the Cambridge ...
hemina sanguinis in tua potestate est: nam quod ad sepulturam pertinet, ..."
2. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz (1849)
"A very short time after Cato and about the time of the destruction of Carthage,
the history of Rome was written by L. Cassius hemina*0, from whose work we ..."
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