minuo

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *minuō, 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

  1. to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize
    Synonyms: diminuō, dēminuō, imminuō, tenuō, premō, corripiō
    Antonyms: augeō, amplificō, extendō, accumulō, cumulō, multiplicō
  2. to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell
    Synonym: coerceo
  3. to dismember, tear apart, break
    Synonyms: findo, rumpo
  4. to restrict, confine, limit
    Synonyms: fīniō, līmitō, delīmitō, claudō, urgeō, moderor, inclūdō
    animos minuereto restrict the wrath
  5. to remove, subtract, detract
  6. to reduce the importance
  7. to undermine, weaken, debilitate, soften
    Synonyms: atterō, dēterō, frangō, effēminō, tenuō, cōnsūmō, afficiō
    Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō
  8. to eliminate, delete, remove
  9. (poetic) to cease, stop, give up
Conjugation
Descendants

(See also etymology 2.)

  • French: minuer
  • Interlingua: minuer
  • Italian: minuire
  • Portuguese: minuir
  • Spanish: minuir

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 139
  2. ^ 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.

Verb

minuō (present infinitive minuāre, perfect active minuāvī, supine minuātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. alternative form of minuō
Conjugation
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnuĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 126

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

minuo (Cyrillic spelling минуо)

  1. masculine singular active past participle of minuti