different between minutiae vs minutia

English

Alternative forms

• minutiæ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??n(j)u??(?)?i?/, /ma??n(j)u??(?)?a?/, /m??n(j)u??(?)?i?/, /m??n(j)u??(?)?a?/, /m??nju??ie?/

Noun

minutiae

1. plural of minutia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mi?nu?.ti.ae?/, [m??nu?t?iäe?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi?nu.t?si.e/, [mi?nu?t??s?i?]

Noun

min?tiae

1. nominative plural of min?tia
2. genitive singular of min?tia
3. dative singular of min?tia
4. vocative plural of min?tia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minutia, from min?tus (“small, little”), from minu? (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??n(j)u??(i?)?/, /m??n(j)u??(i?)?/

Noun

minutia (plural minutiae or minutiæ)

1. A minor detail, often of negligible importance.

   They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
2. (biometrics, forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Derived from min?tus (“diminished”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mi?nu?.ti.a/, [m??nu?t?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi?nu.t?si.a/, [mi?nu?t??s?i?]

Noun

min?tia f (genitive min?tiae); first declension

1. smallness, fineness, minuteness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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