minim
English

Musical notation for a minim note.
Alternative forms
- minom (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
minim (plural minims)
- (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
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- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- the minims of existence
- (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- These as a line thir[sic] long dimension drew,
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
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- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- To make one minim of thy poor handmaid
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Translations
half note
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small fish — see minnow
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈniːm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mi‧nim
Adjective
minim (strong nominative masculine singular minimer, comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)
- (dated outside Switzerland) minimal
- Synonym: minimal
Declension
Positive forms of minim
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist minim | sie ist minim | es ist minim | sie sind minim | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | minimer | minime | minimes | minime |
genitive | minimen | minimer | minimen | minimer | |
dative | minimem | minimer | minimem | minimen | |
accusative | minimen | minime | minimes | minime | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der minime | die minime | das minime | die minimen |
genitive | des minimen | der minimen | des minimen | der minimen | |
dative | dem minimen | der minimen | dem minimen | den minimen | |
accusative | den minimen | die minime | das minime | die minimen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein minimer | eine minime | ein minimes | (keine) minimen |
genitive | eines minimen | einer minimen | eines minimen | (keiner) minimen | |
dative | einem minimen | einer minimen | einem minimen | (keinen) minimen | |
accusative | einen minimen | eine minime | ein minimes | (keine) minimen |
Comparative forms of minim
Superlative forms of minim
Ido
Alternative forms
- minme (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ми́нимум (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime. Decision no. 13, Progreso I.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈnim/
Ladin
Romanian
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