minuta

See also: mínúta, minúta, minutã, and minutą

Albanian

Noun

minuta f pl

1. plural of minutë

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnuta]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Minute, from Late Latin minūta.

Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time)
2. minute (unit of angular measure)

Declension

Declension of minuta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	minuta	minuty
genitive	minuty	minut
dative	minutě	minutám
accusative	minutu	minuty
vocative	minuto	minuty
locative	minutě	minutách
instrumental	minutou	minutami

Derived terms

• minutka

Related terms

• See minus

Further reading

• “minuta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “minuta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “minuta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

minuta

1. inflection of minout:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter plural passive participle

Estonian

Pronoun

minuta

1. abessive singular of mina

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ny.ta/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: minutas, minutât

Verb

minuta

1. third-person singular past historic of minuter

Interlingua

Noun

minuta (plural minutas)

1. minute

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mi‧nù‧ta

Adjective

minuta

1. feminine singular of minuto

Noun

minuta f (plural minute)

1. draft

Anagrams

• manitù, munita

Kashubian

Alternative forms

• mënuta, manuta (regional)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-

Proto-Indo-European *-néwti

Proto-Indo-European *minéwti

Proto-Italic *minuō

Latin minuō

Latin minūtalbor.

Old Polish minuta

▲

French minutesl.

▲

German Minutesl.

Polish minutabor.

Kashubian minuta

Borrowed from Polish minuta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowi)

1. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
2. minute (short amount of time)

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “minuta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “minuta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Pronunciation

• minūta:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnuː.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnuː.ta]

Participle

minūta

1. inflection of minūtus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

minūtā

1. ablative feminine singular of minūtus

References

• "minuta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour", "note”).

Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time)

Declension

Declension of minuta

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	minuta	minuśe	minuty
genitive	minuty	minutowu	minutow
dative	minuśe	minutoma	minutam
accusative	minutu	minuśe	minuty
instrumental	minutu	minutoma	minutami
locative	minuśe	minutoma	minutach

Derived terms

• minutowy

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian minuto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈnuː.ta/
• Rhymes: -uːta

Noun

minuta f (plural minuti)

1. minute

   Synonym: (obsolete) dqiqa

Related terms

• minutament
• minutant
• minutarju
• minutiera

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta. Compare menut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnyto/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute (unit of time)

Old Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-

Proto-Indo-European *-néwti

Proto-Indo-European *minéwti

Proto-Italic *minuō

Latin minuō

Latin minūtalbor.

Old Polish minuta

Learned borrowing from Latin minūta. First attested in 1420.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /mʲinuta/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /mʲinuta/

Noun

minuta f

1. concept, rough draft (preliminary drafting of a document without legal force)
   • 1874 [1420], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące‎^[3], volume VIII, page 460:

     To, czso mi dali vinø panowye ot krolya y ot koroni pospolstwa, tegom wschego... praw, a ginako tego zapissa albo compromissa-m nye widal, gedno yakom gy z minuti przet krolem czedl y oprawil

     [To, cso mi dali winę panowie ot krola i ot korony pospolstwa, tegom wszego... praw, a jinako tego zapisa albo kompromisa-m nie wydał, jedno jakom ji z minuty przed krolem czetł i oprawił]

Descendants

• Polish: minuta
  • → Kashubian: minuta
• Silesian: minuta
• → Yiddish: מינוט (minut)

References

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “minuta 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “minuta”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
• Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “minuta”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎^[4] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “minuta”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-

Proto-Indo-European *-néwti

Proto-Indo-European *minéwti

Proto-Italic *minuō

Latin minuō

Latin minūtalbor.

Old Polish minuta

▲

French minutesl.

▲

German Minutesl.

Polish minuta

Inherited from Old Polish minuta. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French minute or German Minute. Doublet of menu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowy, abbreviation min or min.)

2. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
3. minute (short moment)

   Synonyms: chwila, moment, sekunda

4. (geometry) arcminute (1/60th of a degree)
5. (obsolete) abstract (document without a stamp or seal)

Declension

Declension of minuta

	singular	plural
nominative	minuta	minuty
genitive	minuty	minut
dative	minucie	minutom
accusative	minutę	minuty
instrumental	minutą	minutami
locative	minucie	minutach
vocative	minuto	minuty

Derived terms

adverbs

• z minuty na minutę

particles

• z minutami

nouns

• minutaż
• minutnik
• pięć minut

Related terms

nouns

• minuteczka

Descendants

• → Kashubian: minuta

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), minuta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 7 times in essays, 29 times in fiction, and 22 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 568th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• “minuta”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “minuta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “minuta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Ewa Rodek (21.05.2021), “MINUTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 992

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /miˈnu.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /miˈnu.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin minūta [scriptūra] (“diminished [writing]”). Doublet of miúda.

Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. draft (usually of an official document)

   Synonym: rascunho

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

minuta

1. inflection of minutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “minuta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “minuta”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “minuta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romansh

Alternative forms

• minut (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.

Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mìnūt (Bosnia, Serbia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /minǔːta/
• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

Noun

minúta f (Cyrillic spelling мину́та)

1. (Croatia) minute

Declension

Declension of minuta

	singular	plural
nominative	minuta	minute
genitive	minute	minuta
dative	minuti	minutama
accusative	minutu	minute
vocative	minuto	minute
locative	minuti	minutama
instrumental	minutom	minutama

Silesian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-

Proto-Indo-European *-néwti

Proto-Indo-European *minéwti

Proto-Italic *minuō

Latin minuō

Latin minūtalbor.

Old Polish minuta

Silesian minuta

Inherited from Old Polish minuta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)

Declension

Declension of minuta

	singular	plural
nominative	minuta	minuty
genitive	minuty	minut
dative	minucie	minutōm
accusative	minutã	minuty
instrumental	minutōm	minutami/minutōma
locative	minucie	minutach
vocative	minuto	minuty

Further reading

• minuta in dykcjonorz.eu
• minuta in silling.org

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /minúːta/

Noun

minȗta f

1. minute (unit of time)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	minúta
gen. sing.	minúte
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	minúta	minúti	minúte
genitive (rodȋlnik)	minúte	minút	minút
dative (dajȃlnik)	minúti	minútama	minútam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	minúto	minúti	minúte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	minúti	minútah	minútah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	minúto	minútama	minútami

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnuta/ [miˈnu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

Etymology 1

Derived from French menu. Doublet of minuto, menudo.

Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. rough draft

   Synonyms: boceto, bosquejo, borrador

2. bill, fee (for example, at a restaurant)

   Synonym: cuenta

3. list (of various things)

   Synonyms: lista, inventario

4. menu (at a restaurant)

   Synonyms: menú, carta

   El secretario será responsable de tomar las minutas de la reunión.

   The secretary will be responsible for taking the minutes of the meeting.

5. (Paraguay, Rioplatense, by association) bar food

   Synonyms: refrigerio, tentempié, bocadillo

Etymology 2

Adapted borrowing of English minute.

Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute, note (of a meeting)

   Synonyms: acta, nota

Etymology 3

From menudo (“small”) +‎ -a in reference to ice granules.

Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. (El Salvador) snow cone

   Synonym: raspado

Further reading

• “minuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Veps

Pronoun

minuta

1. abessive of minä