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minimum

minimum is a Latin form of parvus, meaning “small, little”.

It can also be a form of minimus, “smallest, least”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 200 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.20.2: scire se illa esse vera, nec quemquam ex eo plus quam se doloris capere, propterea quod, cum ipse gratia plurimum domi atque in reliqua Gallia, ille minimum propter adulescentiam posset, per se crevisset;

Seneca the Younger, Troades 336: Minimum decet libere cui multum licet.

All forms of parvus (declension 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.