minorとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin minor (“rather small”)

発音

• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnɚ/
• 異形同音異義語: miner, mynah (non-rhotic accents)
• 韻: -aɪnə(ɹ)

形容詞

minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)

1. Of little significance or importance.

   The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

   of minor importance

   She suffered a minor injury

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (かつ evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

2. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

   a minor scale

3. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:insignificant
• See also Thesaurus:small

反意語

• major

派生語

• (music): minor interval, minor key, minor mode, minor scale, natural minor scale, A minor, etc.

名詞

minor (複数形 minors)

1. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

   It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

2. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university

   I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.

3. the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

   I became an English minor.

4. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
5. (英国用法 スラング, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
6. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
7. (logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
8. (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

同意語

• (law): underage (adjective)

反意語

• (law): adult
• major

動詞

minor (三人称単数 現在形 minors, 現在分詞 minoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 minored)

1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
   • I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

Further reading

• Minor on Wikipedia.
• Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• Miron, Morin, morin

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nor/, [ˈmɪ.nɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nor/, [ˈmiː.nɔr]

語源 1

From Proto-Italic *minwōs. Related to minuō.

形容詞

minor (neuter minus, positive parvus); third declension

1. comparative degree of parvus; lesser, inferior, smaller

語形変化

Third-declension comparative adjective.

反意語

• māior

派生した語

名詞

minor m (genitive minōris); third declension

1. subordinate
2. (in the plural) descendants

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

語源 2

From minae (“threats”).

動詞

minor (present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I jut forth, protrude, project
2. (with dative) I threaten, menace someone with something

Conjugation

派生語

• mināx
• minitor

派生した語

参照

• (adjective) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (verb) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• minor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
    
  • to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere