mint

• enPR: mĭnt, IPA^(key): /mɪnt/

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• Homophone: meant (pin–pen merger)
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat. The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.

mint (plural mints)

1. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
3. (informal) A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.

   Synonyms: (informal) bundle, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune

   That house is worth a mint.

   It must have cost a mint to produce!

   to make a mint

4. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     A mint of phrases in his brain.

• money
• monetary

mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)

1. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
   • 1914, Wen Pin Wei, chapter IV, in The Currency Problem in China‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 111:

     For some time past the legal currency in the various Provinces has been insufficient for use. Formerly the two Provinces of Fuchien and Kuangtung minted some large, round copper coins of excellent workmanship that were said, by the people after they were put into circulation, to be convenient.

2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
   • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 24:

     Titles […] as may appeare to be easily minted

   • 2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic‎^[2]:

     China’s newly minted national parks don’t just safeguard famous keystone species such as Siberian tigers, giant pandas and Hainan gibbons. They are also designed to preserve the shrinking ecosystems that support such iconic wildlife, ranging from sweltering (tropical jungles in the southern province of Hainan to the chilly maple forests of northern Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces bordering Siberia.

4. (transitive, cryptocurrencies) To create a crypto token.

   Coordinate term: mine

   • 2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT.

mint (not comparable)

1. (with condition) Like new.

   in mint condition

   • 2021 March 13, Erin Griffith, “From Crypto Art to Trading Cards, Investment Manias Abound”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     Trading card sales have taken off, too. The price of mint condition cards on StockX jumped to an average $775 in January from $280 a year ago.

2. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
3. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
4. (Northern England, especially Manchester, Geordie, slang) Very good, excellent.
   • 2014, Holly Hagan, Not Quite a Geordie:

     And my God, what a house it was – it was mint! In all my life I had never set foot in such a beautiful place.

   • 2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian‎^[5], →ISSN:

     “Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”

5. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Attractive; beautiful; handsome.

• near-mint

• mintage
• minted
• mintmark

• bullion

From Middle English mynte, from Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθα (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”). Doublet of mentha.

mint (countable and uncountable, plural mints)

2. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

   Synonym: mentha

3. The flavoring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
4. A green color, like that of mint.

   mint:  

5. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

• coleus (Plectranthus mint)

• calamint, menthol

mint (not comparable)

1. Of a green color, like that of the mint plant.

From Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.

mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)

1. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.

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2. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
3. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.

mint (plural mints)

1. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) An intent, a purpose; an attempt, a try; an effort, an endeavor.

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• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/

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• Hyphenation: mint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Borrowed from English mint, from Middle English mynte, from Old English minte, from late Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta. Doublet of munt.

mint f (plural mints)

1. a mint-flavored candy

   Synonyms: pepermunt, muntje

mint n (uncountable)

1. mint (colour)

   Synonyms: mintgroen, munt

mint (not comparable)

1. mint (colour)

   Synonym: mintgroen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mint

1. inflection of minnen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• “mint” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• “mint” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Lexicalization of mi (“what?”) +‎ -n (adverb-of-manner-forming suffix) + -t +‎ [Term?] +‎ [Term?] (locative suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmint]

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• Hyphenation: mint
• Rhymes: -int

mint (archaic, except in fixed phrases in sense 1)

1. (now slightly formal) as, how (in the manner or way that)

   Synonyms: amint, ahogy, ahogyan

   Mint mondtam, ő nem tud ma eljönni. ― As I said, he cannot come today.

2. how? (in what way or manner)

   Synonyms: hogy, hogyan, miként

mint

1. (comparison of things with a quality present at different degrees) than (specifying the basis of comparison)

   Synonyms: -nál/-nél, (dialectal) -tól/-től

   A kastély nagyobb, mint a kutyaház. ― The castle is bigger than the dog-house.

2. (comparison of things with a quality present at the same degree) as …… as (to the same extent or degree)

   Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak

   Olyan nagy a házam, mint a tiéd. ― My house is as big as yours.

3. (comparison of things with some similar quality) like (similar to, reminiscent of)

   Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak

   Olyan ez a ház, mint egy kastély. ― This house is like a castle.

4. (stating someone’s role or capacity in a situation) as (in the role of)

   Synonyms: -ként, -képp/-képpen, -ul/-ül

   János mint zsűritag vett részt az eseményen. ― János took part in the event as a member of the jury.

In the context of comparison, mint starts a new clause, so a comma is needed before it.

• mint in Ferenc Pusztai (Q112535193), editor (2003), Magyar értelmező kéziszótár [A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2nd, expanded and revised edition (ÉKsz.²) (online searchable version under development)
• (adverb): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (conjunction): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

mint

1. Alternative form of mynte (“mint (plant)”)

mint

1. Alternative form of mynt (“strike”)

mint

1. Alternative form of mynten

• minna, minnet

mint

1. past participle of minne

mint

1. past participle of mina

• IPA^(key): /mint/

mint

1. inflection of minți:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive