minari

minari is a Latin form of minor, meaning “threaten (+dat. of the person); (adj., comp. of parvus) smaller, less; younger”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.24: … ium pertinebant libere comitiorum metu deterrebar; petitioni toto animo servire propter iudicium non licebat; minari denique divisoribus ratio non erat, propterea quod eos intellegere videbam me hoc iudicio districtum atque ob …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.17.8: Minari etiam ferro, ni sibi obnoxia foret, et quod videtur novius pervulgatiusque esse, id me doce. Versus enim Vergilii sunt notissimi: Nam neque tunc astris acies obtunsa videri, Nec fratris radiis obnoxia surgere luna,

All forms of minor (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.