FromLatinminimus(“smallest”). Seeminim.

minimus (pluralminimiorminimuses)

1. (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
   • c.1595–1596 (date written),William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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

2. (dated) Theyoungestpupil in aschool having a particularsurname.

   JonesMinimus wants to join the rowing team.

3. (anatomy) Thelittle finger or thelittle toe

• gluteus minimus

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

• minumus(Republican Latin)

Suppletive superlative ofparvus, comparativeminor, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)mey(h₁)-(“small, little”), whence alsoLatinminuō,Gothic𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰(minniza,“smaller”). Contains the same suffix as inīnfimus(“lowest”), but details are uncertain.^[1] Related toAncient Greekμῑκρός(mīkrós,“little, small”),Englishsmicker.

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

minimus (superlative,feminineminima,neuterminimum);first/second declension

1. superlative degree ofparvus(“smallest”)

First/second-declension adjective.

• maximus

Borrowings:

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

• “minimus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “minimus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “minimus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the faintest suspicion:suspicio tenuissima, minima
    

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