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English
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[edit]- minom (archaic)
Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]minim (plural minims)
- (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- the minims of existence
- (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- These as a line thir[sic] long dimension drew,
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To make one minim of thy poor handmaid
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]half note
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small fish — see minnow
See also
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]minim (strong nominative masculine singular minimer, comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)
- (dated outside Switzerland) minimal
- Synonym: minimal
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of minim
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist minim | sie ist minim | es ist minim | sie sind minim | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | minimer | minime | minimes | minime |
genitive | minimen | minimer | minimen | minimer | |
dative | minimem | minimer | minimem | minimen | |
accusative | minimen | minime | minimes | minime | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der minime | die minime | das minime | die minimen |
genitive | des minimen | der minimen | des minimen | der minimen | |
dative | dem minimen | der minimen | dem minimen | den minimen | |
accusative | den minimen | die minime | das minime | die minimen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein minimer | eine minime | ein minimes | (keine) minimen |
genitive | eines minimen | einer minimen | eines minimen | (keiner) minimen | |
dative | einem minimen | einer minimen | einem minimen | (keinen) minimen | |
accusative | einen minimen | eine minime | ein minimes | (keine) minimen |
Comparative forms of minim
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist minimer | sie ist minimer | es ist minimer | sie sind minimer | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | minimerer | minimere | minimeres | minimere |
genitive | minimeren | minimerer | minimeren | minimerer | |
dative | minimerem | minimerer | minimerem | minimeren | |
accusative | minimeren | minimere | minimeres | minimere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der minimere | die minimere | das minimere | die minimeren |
genitive | des minimeren | der minimeren | des minimeren | der minimeren | |
dative | dem minimeren | der minimeren | dem minimeren | den minimeren | |
accusative | den minimeren | die minimere | das minimere | die minimeren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein minimerer | eine minimere | ein minimeres | (keine) minimeren |
genitive | eines minimeren | einer minimeren | eines minimeren | (keiner) minimeren | |
dative | einem minimeren | einer minimeren | einem minimeren | (keinen) minimeren | |
accusative | einen minimeren | eine minimere | ein minimeres | (keine) minimeren |
Superlative forms of minim
Ido
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- minme (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ми́нимум (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime. Decision no. 13, Progreso I.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]minim
Derived terms
[edit]- minimo (“minimum”)
- minima nombro (“quorum”)
- adminime (“at least, at the least”)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 9
Ladin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)
Romanian
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Noun
[edit]minim f (plural minimi)
Declension
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