minor
English
Alternative forms
- minour (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: miner, mynah (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Adjective
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
- Of little significance or importance.
- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
- a minor scale
- (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
- See also Thesaurus:small
Antonyms
Derived terms
- (music): minor interval, minor key, minor mode, minor scale, natural minor scale, A minor, etc.
Translations
of little importance
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musical scale
Noun
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
- I became an English minor.
- (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
- (logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
Synonyms
- (law): underage (adjective)
Translations
someone below the legal age
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Verb
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
Translations
Further reading
Minor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈnor/
Italian
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.nor/, [ˈmɪ.nɔr]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Etymology 1
See minuō.
Inflection
Third declension, comparative variant
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
Genitive | minōris | minōris | minōrum | minōrum | |
Dative | minōrī | minōrī | minōribus | minōribus | |
Accusative | minōrem | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
Ablative | minōre | minōre | minōribus | minōribus | |
Vocative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra |
Antonyms
Descendants
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | minor | minōrēs |
Genitive | minōris | minōrum |
Dative | minōrī | minōribus |
Accusative | minōrem | minōrēs |
Ablative | minōre | minōribus |
Vocative | minor | minōrēs |
Etymology 2
From mina (“a threat”).
Verb
minor (present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Inflection
Conjugation of minor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | minor | mināris, mināre | minātur | mināmur | mināminī | minantur |
imperfect | minābar | minābāris, minābāre | minābātur | minābāmur | minābāminī | minābantur | |
future | minābor | mināberis, minābere | minābitur | minābimur | minābiminī | minābuntur | |
perfect | minātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | minātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | minātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | miner | minēris, minēre | minētur | minēmur | minēminī | minentur |
imperfect | minārer | minārēris, minārēre | minārētur | minārēmur | minārēminī | minārentur | |
perfect | minātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | minātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | mināre | — | — | mināminī | — |
future | — | minātor | minātor | — | — | minantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | minārī | minātus esse | minātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
participles | mināns | minātus | minātūrus | — | — | minandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
minārī | minandī | minandō | minandum | minātum | minātū |
Descendants
References
- (adjective) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (verb) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- minor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
- to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
- to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
- minor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Swedish
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