minuo.
to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize
Meaning & usage
to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize
to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell
to dismember, tear apart, break
to restrict, confine, limit
animos minuere
to remove, subtract, detract
to reduce the importance
to undermine, weaken, debilitate, soften
to eliminate, delete, remove
to cease, stop, give up
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *minuō, from *mi-néw-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Sanskrit मीनाति (minā́ti, “to lessen, diminish, damage”) (also मिनोति (minóti)), Ancient Greek μινύθω (minúthō, “to lessen; to disappear”), Cornish minow (“to reduce”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “less”), Old Church Slavonic мьнйии (mĭnjii, “smaller, lesser, younger”), Tocharian B maiwe (“small, young”). Related to minor.
alternative form of minuō
Where this word comes from
Reassignment of etymology 1 to the first conjugation. Attested from the fourth century CE.
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