different between cognate vs minor
cognate
English
Alternative forms
- cogn. (abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cogn?tus (“related by blood”), from n?tus (“born”). Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??.ne?t/, /?k??.n?t/, /?k??.n?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k??.ne?t/, /?k??.n?t/, /?k??.n?t/
Adjective
cognate (not comparable)
- Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
- Synonyms: akin, same-blooded; see also Thesaurus:consanguine
- Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
- Synonyms: allied, kindred, connate; see also Thesaurus:akin
- (linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Usage notes
“Cognate to” is much less common than “cognate with” and not even mentioned in most dictionaries.
Derived terms
- cognateness
Translations
Noun
cognate (plural cognates)
- One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
- (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
- (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
- (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
- Coordinate terms: etymon, derivative/reflex
- Hypernym: paronym
Derived terms
- false cognate
- cognacy
- cognatic
- cognatically
Translations
See also
- derivation
- etymology
- etymon
- root
- false friend
- agnate
Further reading
- cognate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cognate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cognates in the 1879 edition of The American Cyclopædia.
Anagrams
- coagent
Italian
Noun
cognate f
- plural of cognata
Latin
Adjective
cogn?te
- vocative masculine singular of cogn?tus
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minor
English
Alternative forms
- minour (obsolete)
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Latin minor (“less, smaller, inferior”). Compare Latin minu?, Old High German minniro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?.n?(?)/
- Homophones: miner, mynah (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -a?n?(?)
Adjective
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
- Lesser in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance; comparatively unimportant.
- (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.
- (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.
- (music):
- (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.
- (of an interval) Characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- Having a minor third above the root.
- Having a minor third above the root.
- (usually postpositive) (of a key or mode) Based on a minor scale and tending to produce a sad or pensive effect.
- (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.
- Not having reached majority.
- Synonym: underage
- (Britain, dated) Indicating the younger of two brothers, following a surname in public schools.
- (Canada, US, education) Of or relating to an academic subject requiring fewer courses than a major.
- (logic):
- (of a term) Occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- (of a premise) Containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
- See also Thesaurus:small
Antonyms
- major
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- Antonym: adult
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- (music):
- Ellipsis of minor scale.
- Ellipsis of minor interval.
- Ellipsis of minor key.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
- (Canada, US, sports, in the plural) The minor leagues in baseball or American football.
- (Canada, US, education) A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university.
- The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square submatrix.
- (logic):
- Ellipsis of minor term.
- Ellipsis of minor premise.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit.
- (entomology):
- A small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass.
- A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
Antonyms
- major
Derived terms
- minoress
Translations
Verb
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored) (intransitive)
- Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.
Translations
References
- “minor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “minor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Miron, Morin, morin
Indonesian
Etymology
From Latin minor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?min?r]
- Hyphenation: mi?nor
Adjective
minor
- minor.
- Antonym: mayor
Related terms
Further reading
- “minor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?nor/
Adjective
minor (not comparable)
- (comparative degree of parve) smaller
Adjective
le minor
- the smallest
Synonyms
- (smallest): minime
Italian
Adjective
minor
- Apocopic form of minore
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mi.nor/, [?m?n?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mi.nor/, [?mi?n?r]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *minw?s. Doublet of minu?.
Adjective
minor (neuter minus, positive parvus); third declension
- comparative degree of parvus:
- less, lesser, inferior, smaller
- cheaper
- younger
- less, lesser, inferior, smaller
Inflection
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Antonyms
- maior
Descendants
Noun
minor m (genitive min?ris); third declension
- subordinate, minor, inferior in rank
- person under age (e.g. 25 years old), minor
- (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity
- (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
From minae (“threats, menaces”) +? -or (verbal suffix). Doublet of min?.
Verb
minor (present infinitive min?r?, perfect active min?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (literally, poetic) jut forth, protrude, project
- (transferred sense) [+ablative] threaten, menace
Inflection
Derived terms
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?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- 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
Romanian
Etymology
From French mineur, from Latin minor.
Adjective
minor m or n (feminine singular minor?, masculine plural minori, feminine and neuter plural minore)
- minor
Declension
Swedish
Noun
minor
- indefinite plural of mina
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