mini

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mini"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn.i/, Rhymes: -ɪni

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: many (pin–pen merger)

Etymology 1

From the prefix mini-.

Adjective

mini (not comparable)

1. Miniature, tiny, small.

Derived terms

See also mini-.

• double mini trampoline
• mini band
• mini CD
• mini digger
• mini ephedrine
• mini excavator
• mini hi-fi system
• Mini Magellanic Cloud
• mini mastiff
• mini-organizational
• mini rugby
• mini skip
• mini stroke
• mini tower

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.

Derived terms

• micromini

Related terms

• mini-
• miniature
• minimum
• minor

Anagrams

• IINM, imin

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mine

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:

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Pronoun

mini

1. I
2. me

Related terms

• io/iou
• mi

See also

• tu, tini / tine
• el / elu, nãs / nes
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj / ei, nesh

Beli

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

• mni (Yankton)

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *warį́ (“water”).

Noun

mini

1. water

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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

• inimini

Ekpeye

Noun

minꜝi

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ekpeye

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

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

1. small; tiny

Adverb

mini

1. (colloquial) minimum; minimally

Antonyms

• maxi

Further reading

• “mini”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hidatsa

Alternative forms

• miri, midi (older forms)

Noun

mini

1. water

References

• Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1963, →ISBN: "miri" (but see also )
• 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"