lāmina or lammina or lāmna ae, f a thin slice, plate, leaf, layer, lamina: cum lamina esset inventa: tigna laminis clavisque religant, Cs.: aenea, L.: Laminae ardentes, red-hot plates (for torture): candens, H.

—A blade: argutae lamina serrae, V.: Lamina dissiluit, the blade of the sword, O.

—Money, coin: argenti, O.: fulva, a gold piece, O.: inimicus lamnae, foe to money, H.

—The tender shell of an unripe nut, O.