minuoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɪ.nu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.nu.o]

動詞

minuō (present infinitive minuere, perfect active minuī, supine minūtum); third conjugation

1. to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize

   Synonyms: diminuō, dēminuō, imminuō, tenuō, premō, corripiō

   Antonyms: augeō, amplificō, extendō, accumulō, cumulō, multiplicō

2. to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell

   Synonym: coërceo

3. to dismember, tear apart, break

   Synonyms: findo, rumpo

4. to restrict, confine, limit

   Synonyms: fīniō, līmitō, delīmitō, claudō, urgeō, moderor, inclūdō

   animos minuere ― to restrict the wrath

5. to remove, subtract, detract
6. to reduce the importance
7. to undermine, weaken, debilitate, soften

   Synonyms: atterō, dēterō, frangō, effēminō, tenuō, cōnsūmō, afficiō

   Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō

8. to eliminate, delete, remove
9. (poetic) to cease, stop, give up

   c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura II.1028:

   nil adeo magnum neque tam mirabile quicquam,
   quod non paulatim minuant mirarier omnes

   Nothing is so great or so miraculous that all do not gradually cease to marvel thereat.

Conjugation

派生した語

(Note: see also Etymology 2.)

参照

Further reading

• “minuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minuo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “minuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “minuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to increase a person's dignity: auctoritatem alicuius amplificare (opp. imminuere, minuere)
    
  • to weaken, diminish a person's hope: spem alicui or alicuius minuere
    
  • to retrench: sumptum minuere
    

語源 2

Reassignment of etymology 1 to the first conjugation. Attested from the fourth century CE.

動詞

minuō (present infinitive minuāre, perfect active minuāvī, supine minuātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. alternative form of minuō

Conjugation

派生した語

参照