minim

• minom (archaic)

From French minime.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/

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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 page number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →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.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

• minmi

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

• IPA^(key): /miˈniːm/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧nim

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

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

   Synonym: minimal

• minme (archaic)

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.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnim/

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

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

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

1. least
2. minimum

Borrowed from French minime.

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minim f (plural minimi)

1. minimum