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English

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.n?m/

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 ?L or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These as a line thir^[sic] long dimension drew,
     Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
     not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
     Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

Translations

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

Anagrams

• minmi

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?ni?m/
• Hyphenation: mi?nim

Adjective

minim (comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

Declension

Synonyms

• minimal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ???????? (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nim/

Adverb

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

• plu
• min

Ladin

Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

1. least
2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

From French minime

Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

1. minimum

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