minim

See also: Minim, mínim, and míním

English

Musical notation for a minim note.

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

     He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.

3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

   the minims of existence

5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These as a line thir^[sic] long dimension drew,
     Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
     not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
     Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二分音符 (ji⁶ fan¹ jam¹ fu⁴)

  Mandarin: 二分音符 (zh) (èrfēn yīnfú)

• Finnish: puolinuotti (fi)
• French: blanche (fr) f
• German: halbe Note f
• Greek: μισό (el) n (misó)
• Icelandic: hálfnóta f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 二分音符 (nibun onpu)
• Korean: 이분음표 (ibuneumpyo)
• Maori: ororua
• Polish: półnuta (pl) f
• Portuguese: mínima (pt) f
• Russian: полови́нная но́та f (polovínnaja nóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: punc geal m
• Swedish: halvnot (sv) c

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

Anagrams

• minmi

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈniːm/
• Hyphenation: mi‧nim

Adjective

minim (comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

Synonyms

• minimal

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ми́нимум (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnim/

Adverb

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

• plu
• min

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Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

1. least
2. minimum

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Novial

Adverb

1. least

   Lo es li minim brav ek li fratros.

   He is the least brave of the brothers.

Antonyms

• maxim