minim

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See also: Minim, mínim, and míním

English

Musical notation for a minim note.

Alternative forms

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
    • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

minim (plural minims)

  1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
      He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    the minims of existence
  5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      These as a line thir long dimension drew,
      Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
      not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
      Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

Derived terms

Translations

small fish — see minnow

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Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈniːm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nim

Adjective

minim (strong nominative masculine singular minimer, comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

  1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal
    Synonym: minimal

Declension

Positive forms of minim
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist minim sie ist minim es ist minim sie sind minim
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative minimer minime minimes minime
genitive minimen minimer minimen minimer
dative minimem minimer minimem minimen
accusative minimen minime minimes minime
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der minime die minime das minime die minimen
genitive des minimen der minimen des minimen der minimen
dative dem minimen der minimen dem minimen den minimen
accusative den minimen die minime das minime die minimen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein minimer eine minime ein minimes (keine) minimen
genitive eines minimen einer minimen eines minimen (keiner) minimen
dative einem minimen einer minimen einem minimen (keinen) minimen
accusative einen minimen eine minime ein minimes (keine) minimen
Comparative forms of minim
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist minimer sie ist minimer es ist minimer sie sind minimer
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative minimerer minimere minimeres minimere
genitive minimeren minimerer minimeren minimerer
dative minimerem minimerer minimerem minimeren
accusative minimeren minimere minimeres minimere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der minimere die minimere das minimere die minimeren
genitive des minimeren der minimeren des minimeren der minimeren
dative dem minimeren der minimeren dem minimeren den minimeren
accusative den minimeren die minimere das minimere die minimeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein minimerer eine minimere ein minimeres (keine) minimeren
genitive eines minimeren einer minimeren eines minimeren (keiner) minimeren
dative einem minimeren einer minimeren einem minimeren (keinen) minimeren
accusative einen minimeren eine minimere ein minimeres (keine) minimeren
Superlative forms of minim
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist am minimsten sie ist am minimsten es ist am minimsten sie sind am minimsten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative minimster minimste minimstes minimste
genitive minimsten minimster minimsten minimster
dative minimstem minimster minimstem minimsten
accusative minimsten minimste minimstes minimste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der minimste die minimste das minimste die minimsten
genitive des minimsten der minimsten des minimsten der minimsten
dative dem minimsten der minimsten dem minimsten den minimsten
accusative den minimsten die minimste das minimste die minimsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein minimster eine minimste ein minimstes (keine) minimsten
genitive eines minimsten einer minimsten eines minimsten (keiner) minimsten
dative einem minimsten einer minimsten einem minimsten (keinen) minimsten
accusative einen minimsten eine minimste ein minimstes (keine) minimsten

Ido

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ми́нимум (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime. Decision no. 13, Progreso I.

Pronunciation

Adverb

minim

  1. least, lowest, minimum
    Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

See also

References

  • Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 9

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Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

  1. least
  2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minime.

Pronunciation

Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

  1. minimum

Declension

Declension of minim
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) minim mini (niște) minimi minimile
genitive/dative (unei) minimi minimii (unor) minimi minimilor
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