minoritas

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed minor +‎ -itas, learned borrowing from Latin minōritās.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧no‧ri‧tas

Noun

minoritas (plural minoritas-minoritas)

1. minority

   Antonym: mayoritas

Alternative forms

• minoriti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

• “minoritas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

From minor +‎ -tās.

Noun

minōritās f (genitive minōritātis); third declension

1. minority (age)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	minōritās	minōritātēs
genitive	minōritātis	minōritātum
dative	minōritātī	minōritātibus
accusative	minōritātem	minōritātēs
ablative	minōritāte	minōritātibus
vocative	minōritās	minōritātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: minoritat
• French: minorité
• Galician: menoridade
• Occitan: minoritat
• Italian: minorità
• Portuguese: menoridade
• Romanian: minoritate
• Spanish: minoridad

References

• "minoritas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “minoritas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• minoritas in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Spanish

Adjective

minoritas m pl or f pl

1. plural of minorita

Noun

minoritas m pl

1. plural of minorita