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minimus en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin minimus (“smallest”). See minim.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A being of the smallest size.
   • Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
2. (dated) The youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.
   • Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.
3. The little finger or the little toe

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Relateds

gluteus minimus