different between minimus vs minimums

English

Etymology

From Latin. See minim.

Noun

minimus (plural minimi or minimuses)

1. (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
   • 1595-96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

     Get you gone, you dwarf;
     You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
     You bead, you acorn.

2. (dated) The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.

   Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.

3. (anatomy) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Suppletive superlative of parvus, comparative minor, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mey(h?)- (“small, little”), whence also Latin minu?, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (minniza, “smaller”). Contains the same suffix as in ?nfimus (“lowest”), but details are uncertain. Related to Ancient Greek ?????? (m?krós, “little, small”), English smicker.

Alternative forms

• minumus (Republican Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.mus/, [?m?n?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.mus/, [?mi?nimus]

Adjective

minimus (feminine minima, neuter minimum, positive parvus); first/second declension

1. Superlative degree of parvus: least, smallest

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Antonyms

• maximus

Descendants

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) , “minimus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

Further reading

• minimus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minimus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Noun

minimums

1. plural of minimum

Synonyms

• minima

French

Noun

minimums

1. plural of minimum

Swedish

Noun

minimums

1. indefinite genitive singular of minimum
2. indefinite genitive plural of minimum