minimus
English
Noun
minimus (plural minimi)
- (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.
- Get you gone, you dwarf;
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- (dated) The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.
- Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.
- (anatomy) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for minimus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Etymology
Related to minuō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni.mus/, [ˈmɪ.nɪ.mʊs]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | minimus | minima | minimum | minimī | minimae | minima | |
Genitive | minimī | minimae | minimī | minimōrum | minimārum | minimōrum | |
Dative | minimō | minimae | minimō | minimīs | minimīs | minimīs | |
Accusative | minimum | minimam | minimum | minimōs | minimās | minima | |
Ablative | minimō | minimā | minimō | minimīs | minimīs | minimīs | |
Vocative | minime | minima | minimum | minimī | minimae | minima |
Antonyms
Descendants
References
- minimus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minimus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima
- (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima
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