different between minor vs mini

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)

1. Lesser in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance; comparatively unimportant.
   1. (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.

2. (music):
   1. (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.

   2. (of an interval) Characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
      1. Having a minor third above the root.

   3. (usually postpositive) (of a key or mode) Based on a minor scale and tending to produce a sad or pensive effect.
3. Not having reached majority.

   Synonym: underage

   1. (Britain, dated) Indicating the younger of two brothers, following a surname in public schools.
4. (Canada, US, education) Of or relating to an academic subject requiring fewer courses than a major.
5. (logic):
   1. (of a term) Occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
   2. (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)

1. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

   Antonym: adult

   1. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
2. (music):
   1. Ellipsis of minor scale.
   2. Ellipsis of minor interval.
   3. Ellipsis of minor key.
   4. (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
3. (Canada, US, sports, in the plural) The minor leagues in baseball or American football.
4. (Canada, US, education) A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university.
   1. The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

5. (mathematics) A determinant of a square submatrix.
6. (logic):
   1. Ellipsis of minor term.
   2. Ellipsis of minor premise.
7. (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit.
8. (entomology):
   1. A small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass.
   2. 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)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. (comparative degree of parve) smaller

Adjective

le minor

1. the smallest

Synonyms

• (smallest): minime

Italian

Adjective

minor

1. 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

1. comparative degree of parvus:
   1. less, lesser, inferior, smaller
   2. cheaper
   3. younger

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Antonyms

• maior

Descendants

Noun

minor m (genitive min?ris); third declension

1. subordinate, minor, inferior in rank
2. person under age (e.g. 25 years old), minor
   1. (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

1. (literally, poetic) jut forth, protrude, project
2. (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)

1. minor

Declension

Swedish

Noun

minor

1. indefinite plural of mina

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?.ni/
• • Homophone: many (pin-pen merger)
• Rhymes: -?ni

Etymology 1

From the prefix mini-.

Adjective

mini (not comparable)

1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Derived terms

See mini-.

Etymology 2

Abbrevations.

Noun

mini (plural minis)

1. A miniskirt.
2. (dated) A minicomputer.
   • 1975, June 25, Computerworld (page 20)

     Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.

Related terms

• mini-
• miniature
• minimum
• minor

Anagrams

• IINM, imin

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mine

Etymology

From Latin m?, possibly through Vulgar Latin m?ne (a root), or through analogy with tsini, from *quene, from quem. Compare Romanian mine, also Dalmatian main.

Pronoun

mini

1. I
2. me

Related terms

• io/iou
• mi

See also

• tu, tini
• el/elu, nãs
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj

Beli

Noun

mini

1. water

Further reading

• Deng Gideon Kol, John Majok Matuek, Tim Stirtz, Beli Dictionary (Juba, SIL-South Sudan, 2013)

Catalan

Verb

mini

1. third-person singular imperative form of minar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of minar
3. first-person singular present subjunctive form of minar

Dakota

Alternative forms

• mni (Yankton)

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *wir?? (“water”).

Noun

mini

1. water

Ekpeye

Noun

min?i

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ekpeye

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni/

Adjective

mini (feminine singular minie, masculine plural minis, feminine plural minies)

1. small; tiny

Adverb

mini

1. (colloquial) minimum; minimally

Antonyms

• maxi

Further reading

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

Hidatsa

Alternative forms

• miri, midi (older forms)

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1963, ?ISBN: "miri" (but see also [1])
• Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians, by W. Matthews (1877), noting "the interchangeability of certain lingual and labial sounds in the Hidatsa": "mini or midi"

Hungarian

Etymology

From English mini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mini]
• Hyphenation: mi?ni
• Rhymes: -ni

Adjective

mini (comparative minibb, superlative legminibb)

1. small, tiny

Declension

Noun

mini (plural minik)

1. miniskirt

   Synonym: miniszoknya

Declension

References

Italian

Noun

mini f (invariable)

1. miniskirt

Verb

mini

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

Latvian

Verb

mini

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of min?t
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of min?t

Verb

mini

1. 2nd person singular past indicative form of m?t

Mandan

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Will and Spinden, The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language

Ogbah

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of ?gbà, an Igboid Language of Southern Nigeria (2005)

Romanian

Etymology

From French mini.

Adjective

mini m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. mini

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mini (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. second-person singular imperative of minuti

Spanish

Adjective

mini (plural minis)

1. mini

Tsuvadi

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Kambari survey entry 2 - Scanned Wordlist Files: Kambari of Niger and Kebbi states, Nigeria, page 10