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minuta

minuta is a Latin form of minuo, meaning “lessen, diminish, reduce”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.30: … terdum virtutis nomine amplectimur, ut omnia praeterea, quae bona corporis et fortunae putantur, perexigua et minuta videantur, igitur ne malum quidem ullum, nec si in unum locum conlata omnia sint, cum turpitudinis malo compa …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 15.94.41: Nec tibi facile dixerim quemadmodum prosit, sicut illud intellego profuisse. Minuta quaedam, ut ait Phaedon, animalia cum mordent non sentiuntur; adeo tenuis illis et fallens in periculum vis e …

All forms of minuo (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.