mini

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn.i/

• Audio (Southern England)

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  • Homophone: many (pin-pen merger)
• Rhymes: -ɪni

Etymology 1

From the prefix mini-.

Adjective

mini (not comparable)

1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Derived terms

See also mini-.

Etymology 2

Abbrevations.

Noun

mini (plural minis)

1. Abbreviation of miniskirt.
   • 2010, Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood:

     All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire. […] Most important is rolling your skirt so that it is a virtual mini […]

2. (dated) Abbreviation of minicomputer.
   • 1975 June 25, Computerworld, page 20:

     Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.

   • 1976, E. Salkovitz, “Science, Technology, and the Modern Navy: Thirtieth Anniversary, 1946-1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Office of Naval Research, page 474:

     Time sharing will be done by the mini because time sharing (the bulk of which is simple text editing) is the wrong thing to do on a maxi and the right thing on a mini.

3. (roleplaying games, board games) Abbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).

   You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.

4. (informal, choreography) A very young dancer.

Related terms

• mini-
• miniature
• minimum
• minor

Anagrams

• IINM, imin

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mine

Etymology

From Latin mē, possibly through Vulgar Latin mēne (a root), or through analogy with tsini, from *quene, from quem. Compare Romanian mine, also Dalmatian main.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

mini

1. I
2. me

Related terms

• io/iou
• mi

See also

• tu, tini / tine
• el / elu, nãs / nes
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj / ei, nesh

Beli

Noun

mini

1. water

Further reading

• Deng Gideon Kol, John Majok Matuek, Tim Stirtz, Beli Dictionary (Juba, SIL-South Sudan, 2013)

Catalan

Verb

mini

1. inflection of minar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Dakota

Alternative forms

• mni (Yankton)

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *warį́ (“water”).

Noun

mini

1. water

Ekpeye

Noun

minꜝi

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ekpeye

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni/

• Audio

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Adjective

mini (feminine minie, masculine plural minis, feminine plural minies)

1. small; tiny

Adverb

mini

1. (colloquial) minimum; minimally

Antonyms

• maxi

Further reading

• “mini”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hidatsa

Alternative forms

• miri, midi (older forms)

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1963, →ISBN: "miri" (but see also )
• Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians, by W. Matthews (1877), noting "the interchangeability of certain lingual and labial sounds in the Hidatsa": "mini or midi"

Hungarian

Etymology

From English mini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mi‧ni
• Rhymes: -ni

Adjective

mini (comparative minibb, superlative legminibb)

1. small, tiny

Declension

Noun

mini (plural minik)

1. miniskirt

   Synonym: miniszoknya

Declension

References

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/
• Rhymes: -ini
• Hyphenation: mì‧ni

Etymology 1

Noun

mini f (invariable)

1. miniskirt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mini

1. inflection of minare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Latvian

Verb

mini

1. inflection of minēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Verb

mini

1. second-person singular past indicative of mīt

Mandan

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Will and Spinden, The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language

Ogbah

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ọgbà, an Igboid Language of Southern Nigeria (2005)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

mini

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɲi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iɲi
• Syllabification: mi‧ni
• Homophone: mini-

Adjective

mini (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. mini (miniature, small, tiny)

   Antonym: maksi

2. (of clothes) mini (mid-thigh or shorter)

   Antonym: maksi

3. mini (lasting for a very short time)

Noun

mini f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) mini, miniskirt

   Synonyms: miniówka, minispódniczka

   Antonym: maksi

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• mini in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mini in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mini.

Adjective

mini m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. mini

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mini (Cyrillic spelling мини)

1. second-person singular imperative of minuti

Slovene

Verb

míni

1. second-person singular imperative of miniti

Spanish

Adjective

mini m or f (masculine and feminine plural minis)

1. mini

Tsuvadi

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Kambari survey entry 2 - Scanned Wordlist Files: Kambari of Niger and Kebbi states, Nigeria, page 10