Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - minuscule
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If you describe something as minuscule, you mean that it is very small. The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time. = minute ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: French, from Latin minusculus rather small, diminutive of minor smaller Date: 1701 1. a lowercase letter 2. a. one of several ancient and medieval writing styles developed from cursive and having simplified and small forms b. a letter in this style II. adjective Date: 1703 1. written in or in the size or style of ~s 2. very small ~ amounts ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 Palaeog. a kind of cursive script developed in the 7th c. 2 a lower-case letter. --adj. 1 lower-case. 2 colloq. extremely small or unimportant. Derivatives minuscular adj. Etymology: F f. L minuscula (littera letter) dimin. of minor: see MINOR ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. минускул 2. рукопись, написанная минускулами 3. минускульный, написанный минускулами 4. (очень) маленький ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1730, from Fr. minuscule, from L. minuscula, in minuscula littera "slightly smaller letter," fem. of minusculus "rather less," dim. of minus "less" (see minus). Sense of "small (not capital) letter" is earliest in Eng.; extended meaning of "extremely small" is first attested 1893. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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