minimus

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noun

A being of the smallest size.

“Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.”

OriginLatin minimus →
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Meanings

nounminimus (plural minimi or minimuses)

plural minimi · plural minimuses

  1. obsoleteA being of the smallest size.

    Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn.

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
  2. datedThe youngest pupil in a school having a particular surname.

    Jones Minimus wants to join the rowing team.

  3. anatomyThe little finger or the little toe

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
little finger

Origin

  1. Latinminimus“smallest”
  2. Englishminimus

From Latin minimus (“smallest”). See minim.

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APA

minimus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimus

MLA

“minimus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimus. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “minimus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minimus.

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