minutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”).

Participle

minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum); first/second-declension participle

1. diminished, having been diminished

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	minūtus	minūta	minūtum		minūtī	minūtae	minūta
Genitive	minūtī	minūtae	minūtī		minūtōrum	minūtārum	minūtōrum
Dative	minūtō		minūtō		minūtīs
Accusative	minūtum	minūtam	minūtum		minūtōs	minūtās	minūta
Ablative	minūtō	minūtā	minūtō		minūtīs
Vocative	minūte	minūta	minūtum		minūtī	minūtae	minūta

Adjective

minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum, comparative minor, superlative minimus, adverb minūtim); first/second-declension adjective

1. very small, little, minute
2. petty, mediocre, commonplace

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	minūtus	minūta	minūtum		minūtī	minūtae	minūta
Genitive	minūtī	minūtae	minūtī		minūtōrum	minūtārum	minūtōrum
Dative	minūtō		minūtō		minūtīs
Accusative	minūtum	minūtam	minūtum		minūtōs	minūtās	minūta
Ablative	minūtō	minūtā	minūtō		minūtīs
Vocative	minūte	minūta	minūtum		minūtī	minūtae	minūta

Antonyms

• magnus

Derived terms

• minūta n
• minūtia
• minūtal

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: minut, minutu
  • Megleno-Romanian: minut
  • Romanian: mărunt, mănunt
• Italian: minuto
  • → Maltese: minuta
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: menudo
• Old French: menu
  • Middle French: menu
    • French: menu (see there for further descendants)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: menudu
• Old Occitan: menut
  • Occitan: menut
• Old Galician-Portuguese: mẽudo, mĩudo, miudo
  • Galician: miúdo
  • Portuguese: miúdo
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: menudo
    • → Cebuano: menudo
    • → English: menudo
    • → Tagalog: menudo
• Piedmontese: minù
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: minût
  • Romansch: minuta, minut
• Sicilian: minutu
• Venetian: minudo, menudo, menuo, minuo

Borrowings

• → Albanian: minutë
• → Aragonese: minuto
• → Aromanian: minutã
• → Asturian: minutu
• → Basque: minutu
• → Bulgarian: минута (minuta)
• → Catalan: minut
• → Chechen: минот (minot)
• → Danish: minut
• → Dungan: минута (minuta)
• → Estonian: minut
• → Galician: minuto
• → Icelandic: mínúta
• → Ingush: минот (minot)
• → Kazakh: минута (minuta), минөт (minöt)
• → Kyrgyz: мүнөт (münöt)
• → Latvian: minūte
• → Lithuanian: minutė
• → Macedonian: минута (minuta)
• → Mongolian: минут (minut)
• → Norwegian: minutt
• → Occitan: minuta
• → Old French: minute
  • Middle French: minute
    • French: minute
      • → Farefare: miniti
      • Haitian Creole: minit
      • → Romanian: minut
    • → Dutch: minuut
      • Afrikaans: minuut
      • → Caribbean Javanese: menit
      • → Papiamentu: minit, minüt, minuut
      • → Trió: minut
  • Norman: minnute
  • Walloon: munute
  • → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
  • → German: Minute, Minut
    • → Czech: minuta
    • → Estonian: minut
  • → Lower Sorbian: minuta
  • → Luxembourgish: Minutt
  • → Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
    • English: minute
      • Tok Pisin: minit
    • Scots: meenit
• → Portuguese: minuto
• → Romansch: minut, minuta
• → Russian: минута (minuta)
  • → Bashkir: минут (minut)
  • → Kazakh: минут (minut)
  • → Yakut: мүнүүтэ (münüüte)
• → Scottish Gaelic: mionaid
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: мѝнӯт, мину́та

  Latin script: mìnūt, minúta

• → Spanish: minuto
  • → Cebuano: minuto
  • → Kapampangan: minútu
  • → Maguindanao: minutu
  • → Maranao: minotos
  • → O'odham: minu꞉to
  • → Quechua: minutu
  • → Tagalog: minuto
• → Slovak: minúta
• → Slovene: minuta
• → Swedish: minut
  • → Finnish: minuutti
• → Tatar: минут (minut)
• → Turkmen: minut
• → Tuvan: минут (minut), минута (minuta)
• → Uyghur: مىنۇت (minut)
• → Welsh: munud
• → West Frisian: minút
• → Yiddish: מינוט (minut)

References

• “minutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “minutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minutus 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)
• minutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.