minor

== English == === Alternative forms === (all): miner, maner, minore, minour, mynor, mynour, mynowr (obsolete) (postnominal): mi === Etymology === From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnə/ Homophones: miner; mynah (non-rhotic) Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ) Hyphenation: mi‧nor === Adjective === minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly: of minor importance a minor poet (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority. The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children. (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization. She suffered a minor injury. There was minor bruising. He has a minor case of puppy love. 1899 October, Edward Pollock Anshutz, Homoepathic Envoy, Vol. 10, No. 8, p. 58: We now know on authority of Dr. Briggs that every case of vaccination is "a minor case of smallpox," and that every such case of smallpox "should be carefully watched until all danger is passed". (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval. The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third. (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect. (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study. The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes. (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix. (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion. (UK, dated) The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname. c. 1593, Henry Chettle, Kind-harts Dreame, sig. C2: He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,And he whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes maior. (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score. (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim. 1969, Arthur Mendel, "Some Preliminary Attempts at Computer-Assisted Style Analysis in Music", Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 45: Josquin works in minor prolation—that is, works in which the signature indicates that a semibreve is equal to two minims,[sic] often have a 3 as a medial signature for a few measures, indicating that until the 3 is canceled by the reappearance of a sign for minor prolation, there are to be 3 minims to a semibreve. (politics, obsolete) Of or related to a minority party. 1796 December 27, Thomas Jefferson, letter: In every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote. Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean. (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges. ==== Usage notes ==== In music and some educated contexts (particularly in borrowings directly from Latin), used as a postpositive: E minor, Friars Minor, Rayburn Minor. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:insignificant and Thesaurus:small ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “most senses”): major (antonym(s) of “legally underage”): grown, adult, mature, of age (antonym(s) of “medically unthreatening”): serious, grave, severe, dangerous, fatal, life-threatening, acute (informal) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === minor (plural minors) (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges. Coordinate term: adult He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues. He plays in the minors. She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open. The play is considered one of his minors. (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad. (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major. I got a minor in English Lit. (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study. I became an English minor. (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun. (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise. (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”). (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”). (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick. (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”). (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit. (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera. (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media. (campanology) Changes rung on six bells. (Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority. Coordinate terms: pupil, adult (mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number. (UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil. (graph theory) Short for graph minor. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored) (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: minor in. ==== Translations ==== === References === “minor, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. “minor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “minor”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Anagrams === Miron, Morin, morin == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Latin minor. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈminɔr/ [ˈmi.nɔr] Rhymes: -inɔr Syllabification: mi‧nor === Adjective === minor (comparative lebih minor, superlative paling minor) minor Antonym: mayor ==== Alternative forms ==== mineur (unadapted borrowing) ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “minor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Interlingua == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /miˈnor/ === Adjective === minor (not comparable) comparative degree of parve: smaller === Adjective === le minor the smallest ==== Synonyms ==== (smallest): minime == Italian == === Adjective === minor (apocopated) apocopic form of minore === Anagrams === normi == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɪ.nɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.nor] Hyphenation: mi‧nor === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Proto-Italic *minōs (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Related to minuō (“to make smaller, to lessen; to grow less”). ==== Alternative forms ==== parvior (Late Latin, rare) ==== Adjective ==== minor (comparative, neuter minus, adverb minus); third declension comparative degree of parvus: Antonym: maior less; lesser; inferior; smaller cheaper younger ===== Declension ===== Third-declension comparative adjective. ===== Descendants ===== ==== Noun ==== minor m (genitive minōris); third declension subordinate; minor; inferior in rank person under the age of majority; minor (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants; posterity ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === From minae (“threats; menaces”) + -ō (verbal suffix). Doublet of minō. ==== Alternative forms ==== minō ==== Verb ==== minor (present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum); first conjugation, deponent (literally, poetic, rare) to jut forth; to protrude; to project; to tower (transferred sense) [with dative] to threaten; to menace ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === References === “minor, v.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “minor, adj.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press minor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 931 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “minor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “minari”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “minor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 979. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “minor”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[3], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC Latino-Sinicum, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 "MINOR", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “minor, v.”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “minor, adj.”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 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 “Minor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[4], London: Macmillan and Co. == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French mineur, from Latin minor. === Adjective === minor m or n (feminine singular minoră, masculine plural minori, feminine/neuter plural minore) minor ==== Declension ==== == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English minor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmainoɾ/ [ˈmai̯.noɾ] Rhymes: -ainoɾ === Noun === minor m (plural minors) (US, Chile) academic minor (Can we add an example for this sense? (add collocations)) ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense == Swedish == === Noun === minor indefinite plural of mina