minute

English Online Dictionary. What means minute‎? What does minute mean?

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭn'ĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

Noun

minute (plural minutes)

2. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

   Alternative forms: min (least ambiguous symbol); m, M (symbols also widely used)

   Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

   Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond

4. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.

   Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic; see also Thesaurus:moment

   give me a minute

6. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

   Synonyms: minute of arc, sexagesm

7. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
8. 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.

9. A point in time; a moment.

   Synonyms: instant, moment; see also Thesaurus:point in time
10. A nautical or a geographic mile.
11. An old coin, a half farthing.
12. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
13. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
14. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.

    Synonyms: age, spell; see also Thesaurus:eon

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: minit

Borrowings

Translations

Verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

1. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mīnyo͞ot', IPA^(key): /maɪˈnjuːt/
• (US) enPR: mīn(y)o͞ot', mən(y)o͞ot', IPA^(key): /maɪˈn(j)ut/, /məˈn(j)ut/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /maɪˈn(j)uːt/, /mʌɪ-/, [məɪ̯-]
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /maɪˈnɪu̯t/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

minute (comparative minuter or more minute, superlative minutest or most minute)

1. Very small.

   Synonyms: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace; see also Thesaurus:tiny

   Antonyms: big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast

2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

   Synonyms: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous

Translations

Anagrams

• minuet, munite, mutein, mutine, untime

Afrikaans

Noun

minute

1. plural of minuut

Esperanto

Etymology

From minuto +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnute/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te

Adverb

minute

1. Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French minute, borrowed from Latin minūta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nyt/

Noun

minute f (plural minutes)

1. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Farefare: miniti
• Haitian Creole: minit
• → Romanian: minut

Interjection

minute

1. wait a sec!

Verb

minute

1. inflection of minuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “minute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.te/
• Rhymes: -ute
• Hyphenation: mi‧nù‧te

Adjective

minute

1. feminine plural of minuto

Anagrams

• emunti, munite

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnuː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnuː.t̪e]

Participle

minūte

1. vocative masculine singular 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

1. alternative form of mynute

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.

Noun

minute oblique singular, f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)

1. minute (one sixtieth of an hour)

   Coordinate terms: segont, eure, jor, semaine, an

Descendants

• Middle French: minute
  • French: minute
    • → Farefare: miniti
    • Haitian Creole: minit
    • → Romanian: minut
  • → Dutch: minuut
    • Afrikaans: minuut
    • → Caribbean Javanese: menit
    • → Papiamentu: minit, minüt, minuut
    • → Trió: minut
• Norman: minnute
• Walloon: munute
• → Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt
• → German: Minute, Minut
  • → Czech: minuta
  • → Estonian: minut
• → Lower Sorbian: minuta
• → Luxembourgish: Minutt
• → Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
  • English: minute
    • Tok Pisin: minit
  • Scots: meenit

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te

Verb

minute

1. inflection of minutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

minute

1. plural of minut