mint
mint 英 [mɪnt] 美 [mɪnt]
n. 薄荷；[金融] 造币厂 vt. 铸币
进行时:minting 过去式:minted 过去分词:minted 第三人称单数:mints 名词复数:mints
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- n. 薄荷；[金融] 造币厂
- vt. 铸币
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1. mint-flavoured toothpaste
薄荷味的牙膏
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2. I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of mint.
我用小薄荷枝装点水果色拉。
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3. after-dinner mints
餐后薄荷糖
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4. the Royal Mint
皇家铸币厂
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5. They learned to mint from the Greeks.
他们从希腊人那里学会铸币。
- mint (adj.) "perfect" (like a freshly minted coin), 1887 (in mint condition), from mint (n.2).
- mint (n.1) aromatic herb, Old English minte (8c.), from West Germanic *minta (source also of Old Saxon minta, Middle Dutch mente, Old High German minza, German Minze), a borrowing from Latin menta, mentha "mint," from Greek minthe, personified as a nymph transformed into an herb by Proserpine, probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.
- mint (n.2) place where money is coined, early 15c., from Old English mynet "coin, coinage, money" (8c.), from West Germanic *munita (source also of Old Saxon munita, Old Frisian menote, Middle Dutch munte, Old High German munizza, German münze), from Latin moneta "mint" (see money). Earlier word for "place where money is coined" was minter (early 12c.). General sense of "a vast sum of money" is from 1650s.
- mint (v.) "to stamp metal to make coins," 1540s, from mint (n.2). Related: Minted; minting. Minter "one who stamps coins to create money" is from early 12c.
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