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Webster 1913 Edition
Minor
Mi′nor
,Noun.
1.
A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
☞ In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age.
2.
(Logic)
The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
3.
A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
Definition 2024
Minor
minor
minor
English
Alternative forms
- minour (obsolete)
Adjective
minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)
- Of little significance or importance.
- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
- a minor scale.
- (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:insignificant
- See also Wikisaurus:small
Antonyms
Translations
of little importance
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musical scale
Noun
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
- I became an English minor.
- (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
Synonyms
- (law): underage (adjective)
Antonyms
Translations
someone below the legal age
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subject of secondary concentration
Verb
minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
Translations
choose an area of secondary concentration
Anagrams
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈnor/
Adjective
minor (not comparable)
le minor
Synonyms
- (smallest): minime
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.nor/, [ˈmɪ.nɔr]
Etymology 1
See minuō.
Adjective
minor (comparative of parvus)
Inflection
Third declension, comparative variant
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
| genitive | minōris | minōrum | |||
| dative | minōrī | minōribus | |||
| accusative | minōrem | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
| ablative | minōre | minōribus | |||
| vocative | minor | minus | minōrēs | minōra | |
Antonyms
Descendants
Noun
minor m (genitive minōris); third declension
- subordinate
- (in the plural) descendants
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | minor | minōrēs |
| genitive | minōris | minōrum |
| dative | minōrī | minōribus |
| accusative | minōrem | minōrēs |
| ablative | minōre | minōribus |
| vocative | minor | minōrēs |
Etymology 2
From mina (“a threat”).
Verb
minor (present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Inflection
| Conjugation of minor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | minor | mināris, mināre | minātur | mināmur | mināminī | minantur |
| imperfect | minābar | minābāris, minābāre | minābātur | minābāmur | minābāminī | minābantur | |
| future | minābor | mināberis, minābere | minābitur | minābimur | minābiminī | minābuntur | |
| perfect | minātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | minātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | minātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | miner | minēris, minēre | minētur | minēmur | minēminī | minentur |
| imperfect | minārer | minārēris, minārēre | minārētur | minārēmur | minārēminī | minārentur | |
| perfect | minātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | minātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | mināre | — | — | mināminī | — |
| future | — | minātor | minātor | — | — | minantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | minārī | minātus esse | minātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | mināns | minātus | minātūrus | — | — | minandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| minārī | minandī | minandō | minandum | minātum | minātū | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- (adjective) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (verb) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- MINOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “minor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
- to be indisposed: leviter aegrotare, minus valere
- to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
- minor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin