mint

mint
\ \ [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monētamint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced Old English mynet. This denoted ‘coin’ (as its modern German relative münze still does), and it was not until the 15th century that the modern sense ‘place where money is made’ emerged. Mint the plant originated in Greek mínthē, and reached English via Latin mentha (source of menthol [19], a German coinage) and prehistoric West Germanic *minta.
\ \ Cf.MONEY; MENTHOL

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