minute
minut
minut (srpski, lat. minut)
Etymology 1
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Dubleti of menu.
Pronunciation
Noun
minute (plural minutes)
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
- Sinonims: minute of arc, sexagesm
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
- 2008, Pink Dandelion: The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, p 52:
- The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
- A point in time; a moment.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe:
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- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, in Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience[1], volume 1:
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- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time
- Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
- 2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:
- “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: minit
Borrowings
- → Baluchi: منٹ (minaṭṭ)
- → Bengali: মিনিট (miniṭ)
- → Burmese: မိနစ် (mi.nac)
- → Central Dusun: minit
- → Chichewa: miniti
- → Fiji Hindi: minit
- → Fijian: miniti
- → Gujarati: મિનિટ (miniṭ)
- → Hausa: minti
- → Hindi: मिनट (minaṭ)
- → Indonesian: menit
- → Malay: minit
- → Malayalam: മിനിറ്റ് (miniṟṟŭ)
- → Maori: miniti
- → Marathi: मिनिट (miniṭ)
- → Nepali: मिनेट (mineṭa)
- → Oriya: ମିନଟ (minôṭô)
- → Pashto: منټ (minëṭ)
- → Punjabi: ਮਿੰਟ (miṇṭ)
- → Sinhalese: මිනිත්තුව (minittuva)
- → Urdu: منٹ (minaṭ)
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Verb
minute
- (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
- I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
- 1870 [June 27, 1855], Charles Dickens, “Administrative Reform”, in Speeches Literary and Social[2], strana 133:
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- 1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe[3]:
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- 1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle[4]:
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- 2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic[5]:
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- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- 1876 [1834], George Bancroft, History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent[6], volume VI, strane 28-29:
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latinski minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: mīnyo͞ot', MFA(ključ): /maɪˈnjuːt/
- (US) enPR: mīn(y)o͞ot', mən(y)o͞ot', MFA(ključ): /maɪˈn(j)ut/, /məˈn(j)ut/
Audio (US) (file) - Rime: -uːt
Adjective
minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)
- Very small.
- They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
- Sinonims: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace, Thesaurus:tiny
- Antonims: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast
- Very careful and exact, giving small details.
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
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- The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
- Sinonims: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous, Thesaurus:meticulous
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Afrikaans
Noun
minute
- množine of minuut
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
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- Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily
- 1929, L. L. Zamenhof, Johannes Dietterle, editor, Originala Verkaro [Original Oeuvre]:
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Etymology
From Old French minute, borrowed from Latinski minūta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
Noun
minute f (plural minutes)
- minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)
Derived terms
Descendants
Interjection
minute
- wait a sec!
Verb
minute
- inflection of minuter:
- prvo lice/treće lice jednine prezenta indikativa/subjunctive
- drugo lice jednine imperativa
Further reading
- “minute” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Pronunciation
Adjective
minute
- ženskog roda množine of minuto
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Participle
- vokativa muškog roda jednine of minūtus
References
- “minute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “minute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Noun
minute
- Alternative form of mynute
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.
Noun
minute f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)
Descendants
- Middle French: minute
- Norman: minnute
- Walloon: munute
- → Central Franconian: Menutt
- → Nemački: Minute
- → Lower Sorbian: minuta
- → Luxembourgish: Minutt
- → Middle English: mynute
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te
Verb
minute
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minutar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minutar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minutar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minutar
Rumunski
Noun
minute
- množine of minut