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^ 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
Further reading
“minuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
minuo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), 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.