minor
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- minour (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Latin minor
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[edit] Adjective
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
- Of little significance or importance.
- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- (music) Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.
- a minor scale.
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- See also Wikisaurus:insignificant
- See also Wikisaurus:small
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Translations
of little importance
musical scale
[edit] Noun
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
- I became an English minor.
- (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
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someone below the legal age
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subject of secondary concentration
[edit] Verb
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
[edit] Translations
choose an area of secondary concentration
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[edit] Interlingua
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /miˈnor/
[edit] Adjective
minor
- (comparative form of parve) smaller
le minor
[edit] Synonyms
- (smallest): minime
[edit] Latin
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
minor (comparative of parvus)
- comparative of parvus; lesser, inferior, smaller.
- vocative masculine singular of minor
- vocative feminine singular of minor
- accusative neuter singular of minor
- vocative neuter singular of minor
[edit] Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case \ Gender | M.F. | N. | MM.FF. | NN. | |
| nominative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
| genitive | minōris | minōris | minōrum | minōrum | |
| dative | minōrī | minōrī | minōribus | minōribus | |
| accusative | minōrem | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
| ablative | minōre | minōre | minōribus | minōribus | |
| vocative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Descendants
- English: minor, minus
- French: mineur, moindre, moins
- Italian: minore, meno
- Portuguese: menor, menos
- Spanish: menor, menos
[edit] Noun
minor (genitive minoris); m, third declension
- subordinate
- descendants (in plural)
[edit] Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | minor | minorēs |
| genitive | minoris | minorum |
| dative | minorī | minoribus |
| accusative | minorem | minorēs |
| ablative | minore | minoribus |
| vocative | minor | minorēs |
[edit] Verb
present active minor, present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum. (deponent)
[edit] Inflection
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | minor | mināris | minātur | mināmur | mināminī | minantur |
| future | minābor | mināberis | minābitur | minābimur | minābiminī | minābuntur | |
| imperfect | minābar | minābāris | minābātur | minābāmur | minābāminī | minābantur | |
| perfect | Use minātus m., mināta f., minātum n. followed by the present indicative of sum. | ||||||
| future perfect | Use minātus m., mināta f., minātum n. followed by the future indicative of sum. | ||||||
| pluperfect | Use minātus m., mināta f., minātum n. followed by the imperfect indicative of sum. | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | miner | minēris | minētur | minēmur | minēminī | minentur |
| imperfect | minārer | minārēris | minārētur | minārēmur | minārēminī | minārentur | |
| perfect | Use minātus m., mināta f., minātum n. followed by the present subjunctive of sum. | ||||||
| pluperfect | Use minātus m., mināta f., minātum n. followed by the imperfect subjunctive of sum. | ||||||
| imperatives | active | passive | |||||
| present (you) | future (you) | future (he/she) | present (you) | future (you) | future (he/she) | ||
| singular | mināre | minātor | minātor | — | — | — | |
| plural | mināminī | — | minantor | — | — | — | |
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | minārī | minātus esse | minātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | mināns (minantis) | minātus-a, -um | minātūrus-ra, -rum | — | — | — | |
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[edit] Noun
minor
- indefinite plural of mina