Mint is a plant with a cool, fresh taste and smell, used in food, drinks, and medicine. As a different noun, a mint is also a place where coins are officially made.
The plant name comes from Old English ‘minte,’ from Latin ‘mentha,’ from Greek ‘minthē.’ The coin meaning comes from Latin ‘moneta,’ a title of the goddess Juno, whose temple in Rome housed a mint; this later merged in English spelling with the plant word.
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