minuscule
noun
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L323983 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- very small
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl/ / /ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl/ / /ˈmɪnjəˌskjuːl/
adj
Etymology: From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
- Written in minuscules, lowercase.
- Written in minuscule handwriting style.
- Very small; tiny.
“a minuscule dot”
“In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.”
noun
Etymology: From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
- A lowercase letter.
- Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
“By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.”
- A letter in these styles.