minim

See also: Minim, mínim, and míním

English

Musical notation for a minim note.

Alternative forms

• minom (archaic)

Etymology

Etymology tree

French minimebor.

English minim

Borrowed from French minime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/

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Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. 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.

3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

   the minims of existence

5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     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 […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

Derived terms

• minim confusion
• minimometer
• minim rest
• semiminim

Translations

half note

• Bulgarian: половина нота f (polovina nota)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二分音符 (ji⁶ fan¹ jam¹ fu⁴)

  Mandarin: 二分音符 (zh) (èrfēn yīnfú)

• Dutch: halve noot f
• Finnish: puolinuotti (fi)
• French: blanche (fr) f
• Galician: branca (gl) f
• German: halbe Note f
• Greek: μισό (el) n (misó)
• Hindi: अर्धमात्रिक (ardhamātrik)
• Hungarian: fél (hu), ^{(please verify)} félhang (hu)
• Icelandic: hálfnóta f
• Japanese: 二分音符 (nibun onpu)
• Korean: 이분음표 (ibuneumpyo)
• Māori: ororua
• Polish: półnuta (pl) f
• Portuguese: mínima (pt) f
• Russian: полови́нная но́та f (polovínnaja nóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: punc geal m
• Spanish: blanca (es)
• Swedish: halvnot (sv) c
• Thai: โน้ตตัวขาว (not-tua-khao, literally “white body note”)
• Vietnamese: nốt trắng (vi)

small fish — see minnow

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

Anagrams

• minmi

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈniːm/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: mi‧nim

Adjective

minim (strong nominative masculine singular minimer, comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

   Synonym: minimal

Declension

Positive forms of minim

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
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

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist minimer	sie ist minimer	es ist minimer	sie sind minimer
strong declension (without article)	nominative	minimerer	minimere	minimeres	minimere
	genitive	minimeren	minimerer	minimeren	minimerer
	dative	minimerem	minimerer	minimerem	minimeren
	accusative	minimeren	minimere	minimeres	minimere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der minimere	die minimere	das minimere	die minimeren
	genitive	des minimeren	der minimeren	des minimeren	der minimeren
	dative	dem minimeren	der minimeren	dem minimeren	den minimeren
	accusative	den minimeren	die minimere	das minimere	die minimeren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein minimerer	eine minimere	ein minimeres	(keine) minimeren
	genitive	eines minimeren	einer minimeren	eines minimeren	(keiner) minimeren
	dative	einem minimeren	einer minimeren	einem minimeren	(keinen) minimeren
	accusative	einen minimeren	eine minimere	ein minimeres	(keine) minimeren

Superlative forms of minim

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am minimsten	sie ist am minimsten	es ist am minimsten	sie sind am minimsten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	minimster	minimste	minimstes	minimste
	genitive	minimsten	minimster	minimsten	minimster
	dative	minimstem	minimster	minimstem	minimsten
	accusative	minimsten	minimste	minimstes	minimste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der minimste	die minimste	das minimste	die minimsten
	genitive	des minimsten	der minimsten	des minimsten	der minimsten
	dative	dem minimsten	der minimsten	dem minimsten	den minimsten
	accusative	den minimsten	die minimste	das minimste	die minimsten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein minimster	eine minimste	ein minimstes	(keine) minimsten
	genitive	eines minimsten	einer minimsten	eines minimsten	(keiner) minimsten
	dative	einem minimsten	einer minimsten	einem minimsten	(keinen) minimsten
	accusative	einen minimsten	eine minimste	ein minimstes	(keine) minimsten

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/

Adverb

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

• plu
• min

References

• Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 9

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minime (“minimal”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈminim/ [ˈmi.nɪm]
• Rhymes: -inim
• Syllabification: mi‧nim

Adjective

minim (comparative lebih minim, superlative paling minim)

1. minimal

   Synonym: minimal

Derived terms

• keminiman
• meminimkan

• minim sentuhan

Related terms

• minimal
• minimalis
• minimum

Further reading

• “minim”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ladin

Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

1. least
2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French minime.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

1. minimum

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	minim	mini	minimi	minimile
genitive-dative	minimi	minimii	minimi	minimilor
vocative	—		—