minusculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From minor (“less, lesser, smaller”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix) (built on the originally s-final stem of the adjective, attested also in the neuter nominative singular form minus). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɪˈnʊs.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [miˈnus.ku.lus] === Adjective === minusculus (feminine minuscula, neuter minusculum); first/second-declension adjective diminutive of minor rather less rather small ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “minusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “minusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “minusculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.