minorité
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin minoritās. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English minority. By surface analysis, mineur + -ité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]minorité f (plural minorités)
- minority (the state of being a minor; youth; period of life preceding adulthood)
- Antonym: majorité
- minority (any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority)
- Antonym: majorité
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “minorité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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