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Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin minus habēns (literally “that has less, having less”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.nus ˈa.bens/
- Hyphenation: mì‧nus‧hà‧bens
Noun
minus habens m or f by sense (plural minus habentes)
- (euphemistic) an unintelligent or mentally challenged person
1893 October 5, Il divin salvatore, page 349:ci vuole una bella tolla […] per venirci a dare un parere opposto! E chi ce lo dà? Un minus habens!- It takes some nerve to come giving an opposing opinion! And who's the one giving it? A mentally challenged!
1930, “La Nascita di Francesco Giuseppe e gli amori di Napoleone II e dell'Arciduchessa Sofia [The Birth of Franz Joseph, and the affairs of Napoleon II and the Archduchess Sophie]”, in Rivista di Roma politica, parlamentare, sociale, artistica, page 417:Lui era notoriamente un degenerato e un minus habens, tantochè gli sarebbe spettata la Corona, e viceversa tutta la famiglia imperiale cadde d'accordo ch'ei vi dovesse rinunciare a beneficio del figlio primogenito- Notoriously, he was a degenerate and mentally challenged, so much so that he was heir to the crown, but the whole imperial family agreed that he instead had to give it up to his first-born son
2006, Paolino Causin, Severino De Pieri, “La vera storia dell'integrazione scolastica degli alunni portatori di handicap [The true story of educational integration of disabled schoolchildren]”, in Disabili e rete sociale: modelli e buone pratiche di integrazione, page 205:La nuova denominazione di «persona handicappata» […] esprime il nuovo modo di considerare l'alunno che presenta difficoltà di apprendimento o di relazione, il quale non viene più considerato al di fuori della normalità (anormale) o come un minus habens (minorato)- The new denomination of "handicapped person" expresses the new way of regarding the schoolchild with difficulties in learning, or forming relationships, who is no longer considered outside of normalcy (abnormal) or mentally challenged (impaired)
Further reading
- minus habens in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana