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名詞

minimus (plural minimi or minimuses)

1. (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Get you gone, you dwarf;
     You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
     You bead, you acorn.

2. (dated) The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.

   Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.

3. (anatomy) The little finger or the little toe

関連する語

• gluteus minimus

参照

• “minimus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源

Suppletive superlative of parvus, comparative minor, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mey(h₁)- (“small, little”), whence also Latin minuō, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰 (minniza, “smaller”). Contains the same suffix as in īnfimus (“lowest”), but details are uncertain. Related to Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós, “little, small”), English smicker.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɪ.nɪ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.ni.mus]

形容詞

minimus (superlative, feminine minima, neuter minimum, adverb minimē or parvissimē); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of parvus (“smallest”)

   Antonym: maximus

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

Borrowings:

参照

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “minimus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

Further reading

• “minimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “minimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “minimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima