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minuo

Pronunciation: [ˈmɪ.nu.oː]

“minuo” is a Latin word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize
  2. to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell
  3. to dismember, tear apart, break
  4. to restrict, confine, limit
  5. to remove, subtract, detract
  6. to reduce the importance
  7. to undermine, weaken, debilitate, soften
  8. to eliminate, delete, remove
  9. to cease, stop, give up

In Latin

  1. Minorem reddere.
  2. Minorem reddere aliquid.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *minuō, from *mi-néw-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Sanskrit मीनाति (minā́ti, “to lessen, diminish, damage”) (also मिनोति (minóti)), Ancient Greek μινύθω (minúthō, “to lessen; to disappear”), Cornish minow (“to reduce”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “less”), Old Church Slavonic мьнйии (mĭnjii, “smaller, lesser, younger”), Tocharian B maiwe (“small,…

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