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French
Pronunciation
Verb
minore
- inflection of minorer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin minōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈno.re/
- Rhymes: -ore
- Hyphenation: mi‧nó‧re
Adjective
minore
- comparative degree of piccolo
- less
- shorter
- lesser
- lower
- younger
- minor (music)
- superlative degree of piccolo
- least
- shortest
- lowest
- youngest
Usage notes
- The apocopic form minor can optionally be used before singular nouns.
Derived terms
Noun
minore m or f by sense (plural minori)
- younger
- youngest
- minor (underage person)
Noun
minore m (plural minori)
- (mathematics) minor
Further reading
- minore in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- minore in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- minore in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- minore in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- minore in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- minore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
minōre
- ablative singular of minor
Romanian
Adjective
minore m or f or n (masculine plural minori, feminine and neuter plural minore)
- Obsolete form of minor.
Declension
References
- minore in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈnoɾe/
- Rhymes: -oɾe
- Syllabification: mi‧no‧re
Verb
minore
- inflection of minorar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative