minusculus
Latin
Etymology
From minor (“less, lesser, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miˈnus.ku.lus/, [mɪˈnʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈnus.ku.lus/, [miˈnuskulus]
Adjective
minusculus (feminine minuscula, neuter minusculum); first/second-declension adjective
- Diminutive of minor
- rather less
- rather small
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | minusculus | minuscula | minusculum | minusculī | minusculae | minuscula | |
| Genitive | minusculī | minusculae | minusculī | minusculōrum | minusculārum | minusculōrum | |
| Dative | minusculō | minusculō | minusculīs | ||||
| Accusative | minusculum | minusculam | minusculum | minusculōs | minusculās | minuscula | |
| Ablative | minusculō | minusculā | minusculō | minusculīs | |||
| Vocative | minuscule | minuscula | minusculum | minusculī | minusculae | minuscula | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: minúscul
- → English: minuscule
- → French: minuscule
- → Friulian: minuscul
- Galician: mincha; → minúsculo
- → Italian: minuscolo
- → Piedmontese: minùscol
- → Romanian: minuscul
- → Portuguese: minúsculo
- → Spanish: minúsculo
References
- “minusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “minusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minusculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette