menor
See also: Menor
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menor m or f (masculine and feminine plural menors)
Noun edit
menor m or f by sense (plural menors)
- minor (person who is below the age of majority)
- Synonym: menor d'etat
Further reading edit
- “menor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “menor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “menor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
menor m or f (plural menores)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
menor (oblique singular, nominative singular meindre)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (menor)
- menur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menor m or f (plural menores)
- (followed by que) comparative degree of pequeno; smaller
- Antonym: maior
- Laranjas são menores que melancias.
- Oranges are smaller than watermelons.
- (preceded by a definite article) superlative degree of pequeno; smallest
- Antonym: maior
- O Sergipe é o menor estado do Brasil.
- Sergipe is the smallest state in Brazil.
- minor, lesser
- Antonym: maior
- um inimigo menor
- a lesser enemy
- (law, of a person) underage (below legal adulthood)
- Synonym: (proscribed) de menor
Noun edit
menor m or f by sense (plural menores)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menor m or f (masculine and feminine plural menores)
- comparative degree of pequeño: smaller
- Antonym: mayor
- comparative degree of joven: younger
- Antonym: mayor
- minor
- 2016, Anuel AA, No Soy Romántico:
- Aquí no hay menores; todos somos adultos.
- There are no minors here; we're all adults.
- (el menor) superlative degree of pequeño: smallest
- (el menor) superlative degree of joven: youngest
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Related terms edit
Noun edit
menor m or f by sense (plural menores)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “menor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014