minans

Present participle of minor.

mināns (genitive minantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. protruding, projecting, towering
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.240:

     “Illa subit mediaeque mināns inlābitur urbī.”

     “That [wooden horse] advances, towering [high], and glides into the middle [of Troy].”
     (Translations vary: The large wooden horse is “towering” over the city, and it is “menacing,” although the Trojans fail to understand its true intent.)

2. threatening, menacing

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “minans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

minans

1. definite genitive singular of mina

• minnas