minutus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of minuō (“diminish”). === Participle === minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum); first/second-declension participle diminished, having been diminished ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Adjective === minūtus (feminine minūta, neuter minūtum, comparative minor, superlative minimus, adverb minūtim); first/second-declension adjective very small, little, minute petty, mediocre, commonplace ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Antonyms ==== magnus ==== Derived terms ==== minūta n minūtal minūtia *minūtiāre ==== Descendants ==== Eastern Romance: Aromanian: minut, minutu Megleno-Romanian: minut Romanian: mărunt, mănunt — regional Emilian: mnûd, minûd Italian: minuto→ Maltese: minuta Old Navarro-Aragonese: Aragonese: menuto, menudo, menut, minut Old French: menuMiddle French: menuFrench: menu (see there for further descendants) Old Leonese: Asturian: menudu Old Occitan: menutCatalan: menutOccitan: menut Old Galician-Portuguese: mẽudo, mĩudo, miudo Galician: miúdo Portuguese: miúdo Old Spanish: Spanish: menudo→ Cebuano: menudo→ English: menudo→ Tagalog: menudo Piedmontese: mnù Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: minût Romansh: minuta, minut Sicilian: minutu Venetan: minudo, menudo, menuo, minuo Borrowings === 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “minutus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.