minimus
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin . See minim.
Noun
minimus (plural minimi)
- (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.
- Get you gone, you dwarf;
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- (dated) The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.
- Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.
- (anatomy) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “minimus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
Related to minuō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni.mus/, [ˈmɪnɪmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni.mus/, [ˈmiːnimus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Adjective
minimus (feminine minima, neuter minimum, positive parvus); first/second declension
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | minimus | minima | minimum | minimī | minimae | minima | |
Genitive | minimī | minimae | minimī | minimōrum | minimārum | minimōrum | |
Dative | minimō | minimō | minimīs | ||||
Accusative | minimum | minimam | minimum | minimōs | minimās | minima | |
Ablative | minimō | minimā | minimō | minimīs | |||
Vocative | minime | minima | minimum | minimī | minimae | minima |
Antonyms
Descendants
- Catalan: mínim
- English: minimum
- French: minime, minimum
- Galician: mínimo
- German: Minimum
- Italian: minimo
- Old French: merme
- Portuguese: mínimo
- Spanish: mínimo
References
- “minimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “minimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima
- (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima
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