Mini-Meとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪnimiː/

名詞

mini-me (plural mini-mes)

1. (chiefly humorous) A person who is a miniature, but otherwise identical, version of a particular person.
   • 1999, Tony Karon, Time, (headline), 9 Aug 1999:

     Now Boris Yeltsin Has His Own 'Mini-Me'.

   • 2005, Sue Richardson, Margot R. Prior, No Time to Lose: The Wellbeing of Australia's Children‎, →ISBN, page 71:

     One motive for procreating is to 'reproduce yourself'—to create a 'mini-me'.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 324:

     The latest in the production line of ruthless royal officials, Edward Belknap was cut from Dudley's cloth, a ‘mini-me’ of the most obnoxious variety.

参照

• OED 2004

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmi.ni.meː/, [ˈmɪnɪmeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmi.ni.me/, [ˈmiːnime]

副詞

minimē (not comparable)

1. superlative degree of parum; least of all; very little
2. not at all, not in the least, by no means; no (opposite of "yes")
3. minimally

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “very much”): maximē

関連する語

• minimus

参考

• parvissimē
• parvus

参照

• “minime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “minime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?