Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - mint
Mint
mint
1. n. 1 any aromatic plant of the genus Mentha. 2 a peppermint sweet or lozenge. Phrases and idioms mint julep US a sweet iced alcoholic drink of bourbon flavoured with mint. mint sauce chopped mint in vinegar and sugar, usu. eaten with lamb. Derivatives minty adj. (mintier, mintiest). Etymology: OE minte ult. f. L ment(h)a f. Gk minthe 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a place where money is coined, usu. under State authority. 2 a vast sum of money (making a mint). 3 a source of invention etc. (a mint of ideas). --v.tr. 1 make (coin) by stamping metal. 2 invent, coin (a word, phrase, etc.). Phrases and idioms in mint condition (or state) freshly minted; (of books etc.) as new. mint-mark a mark on a coin to indicate the mint at which it was struck. mint-master the superintendent of coinage at a mint. mint par (in full mint parity) 1 the ratio between the gold equivalents of currency in two countries. 2 their rate of exchange based on this. Derivatives mintage n. Etymology: OE mynet f. WG f. L moneta MONEY
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English, from Latin mentha, menta; akin to Greek ~hē ~ Date: before 12th century any of a family (Labiatae, the ~ family) of aromatic plants with a square stem and a 4-lobed ovary which produces four one-seeded nutlets in fruit, a confection flavored with ~, ~y adjective II. noun Etymology: Middle English mynt coin, money, from Old English mynet, from Latin moneta ~, coin, from Moneta, epithet of Juno; from the fact that the Romans coined money in the temple of Juno Moneta Date: 15th century a place where coins, medals, or tokens are made, a place where something is manufactured, a vast sum or amount , III. transitive verb Date: circa 1520 to make (as coins) out of metal ; coin, create, produce, to cause to attain an indicated status , ~er noun IV. adjective Date: 1902 unmarred as if fresh from a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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