different between maximum vs minium

English

Etymology

Via French from Latin maximum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæks?m?m/
• Hyphenation: max?i?mum

Noun

maximum (plural maxima or maximums)

1. The highest limit
   • P. Colquhoun

     Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.

2. (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
3. (mathematical analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
4. (statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
5. (colloquial, snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break
6. (colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts
7. (colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs

Usage notes

• Maxima is the more common plural, especially for the technical senses.

Synonyms

• max

Antonyms

• minimum

Hypernyms

• (statistics): measure of location
• extremum

Translations

Adjective

maximum (not comparable)

1. To the highest degree.

   Synonym: maximal

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• supremum

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?maks?mum]

Noun

maximum n

1. maximum

Declension

Antonyms

• minimum

Further reading

• maximum in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• maximum in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin maximum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k.si?m?m/
• Hyphenation: ma?xi?mum

Noun

maximum n (plural maxima or maximums, diminutive maximumpje n)

1. maximum

Antonyms

• minimum

Derived terms

• maximumleeftijd
• maximumloon
• maximumsnelheid

Related terms

• maximaal

Descendants

• Afrikaans: maksimum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak.si.m?m/

Noun

maximum m (plural maxima or maximums)

1. maximum

Derived terms

• grand maximum
• maximal

Further reading

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

Latin

Adjective

maximum

1. nominative neuter singular of maximus
2. accusative masculine singular of maximus
3. accusative neuter singular of maximus
4. vocative neuter singular of maximus

Romanian

Etymology

From French maximum

Noun

maximum n (uncountable)

1. maximum

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin minium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n??m/

Noun

minium (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
2. Red lead. [from 17th c.]
   • 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 29:

     [H]e was so overcome by suffering that his face, which had once been of oriental minium, now became like orpiment, and the hams of his lips turned into rancid lard.

Translations

Czech

Noun

minium n

1. red lead, minium (a bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics)

Synonyms

• su?ík

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nj?m/

Noun

minium m (uncountable)

1. red lead

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• min

Etymology

Iberian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.um/, [?m?ni???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.um/, [?mi?nium]

Noun

minium n (genitive mini? or min?); second declension

1. native cinnabar
2. red lead, minium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• mini?
• minius

Descendants

• English: minium, miniature
• Ancient Greek: ?????? (mínion)
• Italian: minio
• ? Middle Dutch: minie
  • Dutch: menie
• Polish: minia
• Portuguese: Minho, mínio
• Spanish: Miño

References

• minium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• minium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette