different between especial vs minute

English

Alternative forms

• especiall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English especial, via Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form, beauty”), from specere (“to look”). Related to English special and species.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?p???l/
• Rhymes: -???l
• Hyphenation: es?pe?cial

Adjective

especial (comparative more especial, superlative most especial)

1. Exceptional in importance or significance; special.
2. Particular.

Usage notes

especial is far less common than special

Derived terms

• especially

Related terms

• special

Translations

Anagrams

• Speciale, calipees

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin speci?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?s.p?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /es.pe.si?al/

Adjective

especial (masculine and feminine plural especials)

1. special

Derived terms

Related terms

• especialitat

Further reading

• “especial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “especial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “especial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “especial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• especiau (Gascon, Limousin, Provençal)

Etymology

From Latin speci?lis.

Adjective

especial m (feminine singular especiala, masculine plural especials, feminine plural especialas)

1. special

Derived terms

Related terms

• especialitat

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 117.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin speci?lis.

Adjective

especial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular especiale)

1. special
2. powerful; mighty

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin speci?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i?.p?.?sja?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.?pe.si.?aw/, [?s?.?pe.s??.?ä??]
• Hyphenation: es?pe?ci?al

Adjective

especial m or f (plural especiais, comparable)

1. special
2. (euphemistic) disabled (having some physical disability)

Derived terms

• especialidade
• especialmente

Noun

especial m (plural especiais)

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Further reading

• “especial” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “especial” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “especial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “especial” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “especial” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “especial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin speci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /espe??jal/, [es.pe??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /espe?sjal/, [es.pe?sjal]

Adjective

especial (plural especiales)

1. special (distinguished by a unique quality)
2. special (of particular interest or value)

Derived terms

Related terms

• especialidad

Further reading

• “especial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin min?ta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?n'?t, IPA^(key): /?m?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

minute (plural minutes)

1. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

2. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.

   Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic

3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

   Synonym: minute of arc

4. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
   • 2008, Pink Dandelion: The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, p 52:

     The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.

5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
11. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time

    Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

    • 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:

      “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: minit

Borrowings

Translations

Verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

1. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin min?tus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minu? (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?nyo?ot', IPA^(key): /ma??nju?t/
• (US) enPR: m?n(y)o?ot', m?n(y)o?ot', IPA^(key): /ma??n(j)ut/, /m??n(j)ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)

1. Very small.

   Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace

   Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast

2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

   Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:tiny and Thesaurus:meticulous.

Translations

Anagrams

• minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime

Afrikaans

Noun

minute

1. plural of minuut

Esperanto

Etymology

From minuto +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nute/
• Hyphenation: mi?nu?te
• Rhymes: -ute

Adverb

minute

1. Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily

French

Etymology

From Old French minute, borrowed from Latin min?ta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nyt/

Noun

minute f (plural minutes)

1. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

Derived terms

• minute de silence
• minute papillon

Descendants

• ? Farefare: miniti
• Haitian Creole: minit
• ? Romanian: minut

Interjection

minute

1. wait a sec!

Verb

minute

1. first-person singular present indicative of minuter
2. third-person singular present indicative of minuter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of minuter
5. second-person singular imperative of minuter

Further reading

• “minute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

minute

1. feminine plural of minuto

Anagrams

• emunti, munite

Latin

Participle

min?te

1. vocative masculine singular of min?tus

References

• minute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

minute

1. Alternative form of mynute

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin min?ta.

Noun

minute f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)

1. minute (one sixtieth of an hour)

Coordinate terms

• segont
• eure
• jor
• semaine
• an

Descendants

• Middle French: minute
  • French: minute
    • ? Farefare: miniti
    • Haitian Creole: minit
    • ? Romanian: minut
  • ? Dutch: minuut
    • Afrikaans: minuut
• Norman: minnute
• Walloon: munute
• ? Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
• ? German: Minute, Minut f, [Term?] n
  • ? Czech: minuta
• ? Lower Sorbian: minuta
• ? Luxembourgish: Minutt
• ? Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
  • English: minute
    • Tok Pisin: minit
  • Scots: meenit

Portuguese

Verb

minute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minutar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minutar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minutar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minutar