minutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”).

Participle

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

diminished, having been diminished

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	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

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

very small, little, minute
petty, mediocre, commonplace

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	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

magnus

Derived terms

Descendants

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: minut, minutu
- Megleno-Romanian: minut
- Romanian: mărunt, mănunt — regional
Emilian: mnûd, minûd
Italian: minuto
- → Maltese: minuta
Old 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
- Romansh: minuta, minut
Sicilian: minutu
Venetan: 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
→ Middle Irish: minúit
- Irish: mionóid
→ 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
→ Romansh: minut, minuta
→ Russian: минута (minuta)
- → Azerbaijani: (dialectal) numut, nuvut
- → Bashkir: минут (minut)
- → Kazakh: минут (minut)
- → Yakut: мүнүүтэ (münüüte)
→ Scottish Gaelic: mionaid
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: мѝнӯт, мину́та

Latin script: mìnūt, minúta (Croatia)
→ 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, 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.