minimus
Americannoun
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minimi
plural
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a creature or being that is the smallest or least significant.
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Anatomy. the little finger or toe.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of minimus
1580–90; < New Latin, Latin: literally, smallest
Example Sentences
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“I never even thought about the apartment. It was de minimus, in my mind,” Weisselberg said.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2024
“I don't think a country with a de minimus residual coal fleet is necessarily going to shame big coal consumers into radical change,” said Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners LLC.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 1, 2021
About calves, hamstrings, Achilles, knees and weak glutes — they’re the three muscles in the buttocks: gluteus maximus, medius and minimus.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2019
However, “given the lack of priors, the de minimus nature of the contact and the apology letter,” the state dismissed the counts, Knight told the judge.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
What a minimus he was! scarcely a half-foot taller; but with such a noble air, and those same kind eyes of old.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
Small bronze coins, known as minimi, have been recently found at St. Albans, and are now in the city museum.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
In or time = = ; but the semibrevis was only as long as two minimi = = .
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
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