minutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”).

Participle

minūtus m (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum); first/second declension

diminished, having been diminished

Adjective

minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum); first/second declension

small, little
petty, mediocre, commonplace

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	minūtus	minūta	minūtum	minūtī	minūtae	minūta
Genitive	minūtī	minūtae	minūtī	minūtōrum	minūtārum	minūtōrum
Dative	minūtō	minūtae	minūtō	minūtīs	minūtīs	minūtīs
Accusative	minūtum	minūtam	minūtum	minūtōs	minūtās	minūta
Ablative	minūtō	minūtā	minūtō	minūtīs	minūtīs	minūtīs
Vocative	minūte	minūta	minūtum	minūtī	minūtae	minūta

comparative: minor, superlative: mīnimus

Antonyms

magnus

Derived terms

Descendants

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: minut, minutu
- Megleno-Romanian: minut
- Romanian: mărunt, mănunt
Italian: minuto
- → Maltese: minuta
Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: menudo
Old French: menu
- Middle French: menu
  - French: menu (see there for further descendants)
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: menudu
Old Occitan: menut
- Catalan: menut
- Occitan: menut
Old Portuguese: mẽudo, mĩudo, miudo
- Galician: miúdo
- Portuguese: miúdo
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: menudo
  - → Cebuano: menudo
  - → English: menudo
  - → Tagalog: menudo
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: minût
- Romansch: minuta, minut
Sicilian: minutu
Venetian: minudo, menudo, menuo, minuo

Borrowings

→ Albanian: minutë
→ Aragonese: minuto
→ Aromanian: minutã
→ Asturian: minutu
→ Basque: minutu
→ Bulgarian: минута (minuta)
→ Catalan: minut
→ Chechen: минот (minot)
→ Danish: minut
→ Dungan: минута (minuta)
→ Estonian: minut
→ Galician: minuto
→ Icelandic: mínúta
→ Ingush: минот (minot)
→ Kazakh: минута (mïnwta), минөт (mïnöt)
→ Kyrgyz: мүнөт (münöt)
→ Latvian: minūte
→ Lithuanian: minutė
→ Macedonian: минута (minuta)
→ Mongolian: минут (minut)
→ Norwegian: minutt
→ Occitan: minuta
→ Old French: minute
- Middle French: minute
  - French: minute
    - Haitian Creole: minit
    - → Romanian: minut
  - → Dutch: minuut
    - Afrikaans: minuut
- Norman: minnute
- Walloon: munute
- → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
- → German: Minute
  - → Czech: minuta
- → Lower Sorbian: minuta
- → Luxembourgish: Minutt
- → Middle English: minute, minut, minet
  - English: minute
    - Tok Pisin: minit
  - Scots: meenit
→ Portuguese: minuto
→ Romansch: minut, minuta
→ Russian: минута (minuta)
- → Bashkir: минут (minut)
→ Scottish Gaelic: mionaid
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мѝнӯт, мину́та

Latin: mìnūt, minúta
→ Spanish: minuto
- → Cebuano: minuto
- → Quechua: minutu
→ Slovak: minúta
→ Slovene: minuta
→ Swedish: minut
- → Finnish: minuutti
→ Tatar: минут (minut)
→ Turkmen: minut
→ Tuvan: минут (mïnut), минута (mïnuta)
→ Uyghur: مىنۇت‎‎ (minut‎)
→ Welsh: munud
→ West Frisian: minút
→ Yiddish: מינוט‎ (minut)

References

minutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
minutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
minutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
minutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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