minutus

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”).

Participle edit

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

diminished, having been diminished

Declension edit

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

Adjective edit

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

very small, little, minute
petty, mediocre, commonplace

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

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

Antonyms edit

magnus

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

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 edit

“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.