diminute

English

Adjective

diminute (comparative more diminute, superlative most diminute)

(obsolete) small; diminutive
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for diminute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

mutinied

Latin

Participle

dīminūte

vocative masculine singular of dīminūtus

References

diminute in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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