mini

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mini"
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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪn.i/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: many (pin–pen merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɪni

Etymology 1

From the prefix mini-.

Adjective

mini (not comparable)

  1. Miniature, tiny, small.
Derived terms
See also mini-.

Etymology 2

Abbrevations.

Noun

mini (plural minis)

  1. Abbreviation of miniskirt.
    • 2010, Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood:
      All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire. […] Most important is rolling your skirt so that it is a virtual mini […]
  2. (dated) Abbreviation of minicomputer.
    • 1975 June 25, Computerworld, page 20:
      Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.
    • 1976, E. Salkovitz, “Science, Technology, and the Modern Navy: Thirtieth Anniversary, 1946-1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Office of Naval Research, page 474:
      Time sharing will be done by the mini because time sharing (the bulk of which is simple text editing) is the wrong thing to do on a maxi and the right thing on a mini.
  3. (roleplaying games, board games) Abbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).
    You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.
  4. (informal, choreography) A very young dancer.
  5. A small bottle of perfume.
    • 2013, Barbara Herman, Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, page 261:
      In addition to decants, minis, and used bottles of vintage, perfume nips are a fun way to try out vintage, and they seem to be all over the Internet.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mē, possibly through Vulgar Latin mēne (a root), or through analogy with tsini, from *quene, from quem. Compare Romanian mine, also Dalmatian main.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

mini

  1. I
  2. me

See also

Aromanian personal pronouns
number person nominative tonic clitic
accusative dative accusative dative
singular
1st iou mini mie mi nji
2nd tu tini tsãie ti tsã
3rd m el / nãs el lui ãl ãlj
f ea / nãsã ea ljei u
plural
1st noi noi noauã nã
2nd voi voi voauã vã
3rd m elj / nãsh elj lor ãlj lã
f eali / nãsi eali li

Beli (South Sudan)

Noun

mini

  1. water

Further reading

  • Deng Gideon Kol, John Majok Matuek, Tim Stirtz, Beli Dictionary (Juba, SIL-South Sudan, 2013)

Catalan

Verb

mini

  1. inflection of minar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Dakota

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *warį́ (“water”).

Noun

mini

  1. water

Dutch

Etymology

Back-formation from of words with the prefix mini-.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

mini (not comparable)

  1. mini (tiny)
    Synonym: inimini
    Antonym: mega

Declension

Declension of mini
uninflected mini
inflected mini
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial mini
indefinite m./f. sing. mini
n. sing. mini
plural mini
definite mini
partitive mini's

Derived terms

Ekpeye

Noun

minꜝi

  1. water

References

  • Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ekpeye

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree
English minebor.
French minièrebor.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)mēy(H)-
Proto-Indo-European *mēy(H)nis
Proto-Celtic *meinis
Gaulish *meinabor.
Vulgar Latin *mina
French minebor.
German Minebor.
Italian mina
Italian -iera
Italian minierabor.
Esperanto mino
Proto-Italic *-jezi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -īre
French -irbor.?
▲
Latin -īre
Spanish -irbor.?
Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
Latin -īre
Old Galician-Portuguese -ir
Portuguese -irbor.?
▲
Latin -ire
Italian -irebor.?
▲
Latin -iō
Romanian -ibor.?
Esperanto -i
Esperanto mini

    From mino + -i.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmini/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ini
    • Syllabification: mi‧ni

    Verb

    mini (present minas, past minis, future minos, conditional minus, volitive minu)

    1. to mine

    French

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    mini (feminine minie, masculine plural minis, feminine plural minies)

    1. small; tiny

    Adverb

    mini

    1. (colloquial) minimum; minimally

    Antonyms

    Further reading

    Hidatsa

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    mini

    1. water

    References

    • Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1963, →ISBN: "miri" (but see also [2])
    • Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians, by W. Matthews (1877), noting "the interchangeability of certain lingual and labial sounds in the Hidatsa": "mini or midi"

    Hungarian

    Etymology

    From English mini.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈmini]
    • Hyphenation: mi‧ni
    • Rhymes: -ni

    Adjective

    mini (comparative minibb, superlative legminibb)

    1. small, tiny

    Declension

    Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative mini minik
    accusative minit miniket
    dative mininek miniknek
    instrumental minivel minikkel
    causal-final miniért minikért
    translative minivé minikké
    terminative miniig minikig
    essive-formal miniként minikként
    essive-modal — —
    inessive miniben minikben
    superessive minin miniken
    adessive mininél miniknél
    illative minibe minikbe
    sublative minire minikre
    allative minihez minikhez
    elative miniből minikből
    delative miniről minikről
    ablative minitől miniktől
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular     		minié miniké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural     		miniéi minikéi

    Noun

    mini (plural minik)

    1. miniskirt
      Synonym: miniszoknya

    Declension

    Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative mini minik
    accusative minit miniket
    dative mininek miniknek
    instrumental minivel minikkel
    causal-final miniért minikért
    translative minivé minikké
    terminative miniig minikig
    essive-formal miniként minikként
    essive-modal — —
    inessive miniben minikben
    superessive minin miniken
    adessive mininél miniknél
    illative minibe minikbe
    sublative minire minikre
    allative minihez minikhez
    elative miniből minikből
    delative miniről minikről
    ablative minitől miniktől
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular     		minié miniké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural     		miniéi minikéi
    Possessive forms of mini
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. minim minijeim (or miniim)
    2nd person sing. minid minijeid (or miniid)
    3rd person sing. minije minijei (or minii)
    1st person plural minink minijeink (or miniink)
    2nd person plural minitek minijeitek (or miniitek)
    3rd person plural minijük minijeik (or miniik)

    References

    1. ^ Eőry, Vilma (2007), Értelmező szótár+ [Explanatory Dictionary Plus]‎[1] (in Hungarian), Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, →ISBN

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English mini, mini-.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    mini (comparative lebih mini, superlative paling mini)

    1. mini

    Derived terms

    • bermini
    • diminikan
    • meminikan

    Further reading

    Italian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni/
    • Rhymes: -ini
    • Hyphenation: mì‧ni

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    mini f (invariable)

    1. miniskirt

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    mini

    1. inflection of minare:
      1. second-person singular present indicative
      2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
      3. third-person singular imperative

    Latvian

    Verb

    mini

    1. inflection of minēt:
      1. second-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative

    Verb

    mini

    1. second-person singular past indicative of mīt

    Manchu

    Romanization

    mini

    1. romanization of ᠮᡳᠨᡳ

    Mandan

    Noun

    mini

    1. water

    References

    • Will and Spinden, The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language

    Ogbah

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mini

    1. water

    References

    Polish

    Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from French mini.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɲi/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -iɲi
      • Syllabification: mi‧ni
      • Homophone: mini-

      Adjective

      mini (not comparable, no derived adverb)

      1. mini (miniature, small, tiny)
        Antonym: maksi
      2. (of clothes) mini (mid-thigh or shorter)
        Antonym: maksi
      3. mini (lasting for a very short time)

      Noun

      mini f (indeclinable)

      1. (colloquial) mini, miniskirt
        Synonyms: miniówka, minispódniczka
        Antonym: maksi

      Derived terms

      noun
      noun
      • miniówa

      Further reading

      • “mini”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “mini”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

      Romanian

      Etymology

        Borrowed from French mini.

        Adjective

        mini m or f or n (indeclinable)

        1. mini

        Declension

        Declension of mini (invariable)
        singular plural
        masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
        nominative-
        accusative         		indefinite mini mini mini mini
        definite — — — —
        genitive-
        dative         		indefinite mini mini mini mini
        definite — — — —

        Serbo-Croatian

        Verb

        mini (Cyrillic spelling мини)

        1. second-person singular imperative of minuti

        Slovene

        Verb

        míni

        1. second-person singular imperative of miniti

        Spanish

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ˈmini/ [ˈmi.ni]
        • Rhymes: -ini
        • Syllabification: mi‧ni

        Adjective

        mini m or f (masculine and feminine plural minis)

        1. mini

        Tsuvadi

        Noun

        mini

        1. water

        References

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