menor

Latin minōre

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈno/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /meˈnoɾ/

menor (masculine and feminine plural menors)

1. lower, low
2. minor, small
3. (music) minor

menor m or f (plural menors)

1. minor (person who is below the age of majority)

   Synonym: menor d'etat

• “menor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “menor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “menor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin minor.

menor m (feminine singular minor, plural minores)

1. minor, lesser
2. (music) minor

• (minor, lesser): maior
• (music): maior

Latin minor.

menor (oblique singular, nominative singular meindre)

1. smaller
2. smallest
3. very small

• Bretaigne la Menur

• → English: minor
• French: mineur, moindre (from the nominative singular)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (menor)
• menur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ, (Brazil) -ɔʁ
• Hyphenation: me‧nor

menor m or f (plural menores)

1. (followed by que) comparative degree of pequeno; smaller

   Laranjas são menores que melancias.

   Oranges are smaller than watermelons.

   Antonym: maior

2. (preceded by a definite article) superlative degree of pequeno; smallest

   O Sergipe é o menor estado do Brasil.

   Sergipe is the smallest state in Brazil.

   Antonym: maior

3. minor, lesser

   um inimigo menor

   a lesser enemy

   Antonym: maior

4. (law, of a person) underage (below legal adulthood)

menor m or f by sense (plural menores)

1. (law) minor, underage (person below the legal age of responsibility or accountability)

From Latin minor.

• IPA^(key): /meˈnoɾ/ [meˈnoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: me‧nor

menor (plural menores)

1. comparative degree of pequeño: smaller

   Antonym: mayor

2. comparative degree of joven: younger

   Antonym: mayor

3. minor
   • 2016, Anuel AA, "No Soy Romántico"

     Aquí no hay menores; todos somos adultos.

     There are no minors here; we're all adults.

4. (el menor) superlative degree of pequeño: smallest
5. (el menor) superlative degree of joven: youngest

• aguas menores
• menor de edad
• chinchilla menor
• hurón menor
• menormente
• Osa Menor
• pico menor
• pormenor
• saúco menor
• venta al por menor

• minoría
• menos

menor m or f (plural menores)

1. minor; child

• “menor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014