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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *minūtiāre, derived from Classical Latin minūtia (“smallness; small thing, trifle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.nutˈt͡sa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: mi‧nuz‧zà‧re
Verb
minuzzàre (first-person singular present minùzzo, first-person singular past historic minuzzài, past participle minuzzàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to chop, to mince, to dice, to grind, to crush
early 14th century , “Anche dell'abate Maccario Alessandrino e della sua astinenzia, e come andò al luogo di Iammes e Mambres ” (chapter 65), Di san Maccario d'Alessandria, in Domenico Cavalca, transl., Vite de' santi padri , translation of Vitae patrum (in Late Latin); republished as Bartolomeo Sorio, A. Racheli, editors, Le vite de' santi padri volgarizzate (Opere di frate Domenico Cavalca; 1), Trieste: Sezione letterario-artistica del Lloyd Austriaco, 1858, page 82:E udendo poi d’un altro che non mangiava se non una libbra di pane per giorno, volendolo seguitare ed eccedere, minuzzò lo biscotto e miselo in una brocca, e poi quando voleva mangiare metteva la mano dentro, e quel tanto poco che poteva trarne per la bocca stretta col pugno mangiava e non più- And then, having heard of someone else who ate nothing but a pound of bread a day, and wanting to imitate and surpass him, he crushed the biscuit and put it inside a jug; then, whenever he wished to eat, he would put his hand inside, and eat nothing more than whatever little he managed to get out of it with his hand through the narrow opening
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References
- minuzzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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