Dict: easton - Mite

easton:

Mite @ contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin kjv@Luke:12:59 kjv@Luke:21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (
See FARTHING.)