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Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *minwō, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”), either *mi-néw-ti or *mi-néh₁-ti. Cognate with Sanskrit मीनाति (minā́ti, “to lessen, diminish, damage”) (also मिनोति (minóti)), Ancient Greek μινύθω (minúthō, “to lessen; to disappear”), Cornish minow (“to reduce”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “less”), Old Church Slavonic мьнйии (mĭnjii, “smaller, lesser, younger”), Tocharian B maiwe (“small, young”). Related to minor.
Pronunciation
Verb
minuō (present infinitive minuere, perfect active minuī, supine minūtum); third conjugation
- to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce
- Synonyms: diminuō, dēminuō, imminuō, tenuō, premō, corripiō
- Antonyms: augeō, amplificō, extendō, accumulō, cumulō, multiplicō
- to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell
- Synonym: coerceo
- to dismember, tear apart, break
- Synonyms: findo, rumpo
- to restrict, confine, limit
- Synonyms: fīniō, līmitō, delīmitō, claudō, urgeō, moderor, inclūdō
- animos minuere ― to restrict the wrath
- to remove, subtract, detract
- to reduce the importance
- to undermine, weaken, debilitate, soften
- Synonyms: atterō, dēterō, frangō, effēminō, tenuō, cōnsūmō, afficiō
- Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō
- to eliminate, delete, remove
- (poetic) to cease, stop, give up
Conjugation
Descendants
(See also etymology 2.)
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 139
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “minor, -or, -us”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 381–382
- “minuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minuo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “minuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to increase a person's dignity: auctoritatem alicuius amplificare (opp. imminuere, minuere)
- to weaken, diminish a person's hope: spem alicui or alicuius minuere
- to retrench: sumptum minuere
Etymology 2
Reassignment of etymology 1 to the first conjugation. Attested from the fourth century CE.
Verb
minuō (present infinitive minuāre, perfect active minuāvī, supine minuātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
- Alternative form of minuō
Conjugation
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
Serbo-Croatian
Participle
minuo (Cyrillic spelling минуо)
- masculine singular active past participle of minuti