hémine
French, noun/e.min/
hémine is spelled H-É-M-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written French, the 270,259th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hémine is a French feminine noun meaning “hemin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancienne mesure de volume romaine valant un demi setier soit environ 0,27 litre”.
What does hémine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehemin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancienne mesure de volume romaine valant un demi setier soit environ 0,27 litre. 2. Ancienne mesure de vin valant une demi chopine soit 0,24 litre. 3. Récipient pour du liquide. 4. Ancienne mesure de grain nommée aussi mine par abréviation, valant un demi setier c'est à dire 76 litres.
noun: 1. Porphyrine contenant du fer, que l'on peut obtenir à partir de l'hémoglobine chauffée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hémine
- hémines plural
- ^((h aspiré))\e.min\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hémine?
- /e.min/
- ^((h aspiré))\e.min\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hémine in French?
hémine appears about once in every 74 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).