minimum

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnɪməm/
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• General-American: /ˈmɪnəməm/
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 N AH0 M AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: минимален (minimalen) — lowest degree
• Catalan: mínim — lowest degree
• Chinese Mandarin: 最小 (zuìxiǎo) — lowest degree
• Chinese Mandarin: 最低 (zuìdī) — lowest degree
• Chinese Mandarin: 極小 /极小 (jíxiǎo) — lowest degree
• Czech: minimální — lowest degree
• Finnish: minimi- — lowest degree
• Finnish: minimaalinen — lowest degree
• Finnish: mahdollisimman pieni — lowest degree
• French: minimum — lowest degree
• German: minimal — lowest degree
• Greek: ελάχιστος (eláchistos) — lowest degree
• Greek: κατώτατος (katótatos) — lowest degree
• Hindi: न्यूनतम (nyūntam) — lowest degree
• Ido: minima — lowest degree
• Italian: minimo — lowest degree
• Japanese: 最小 (saishō) — lowest degree
• Japanese: 最低 (saitei) — lowest degree
• Japanese: 極小 (kyokushō) — lowest degree
• Khmer: អប្បបរមា (ʼâbbâbârméa) — lowest degree
• Marathi: कमीत कमी (kamīt kamī) — lowest degree
• Marathi: किमान (kimān) — lowest degree
• Portuguese: mínimo — lowest degree
• Russian: минима́льный (minimálʹnyj) — lowest degree
• Slovak: minimálna — lowest degree
• Slovak: minimálny — lowest degree
• Slovak: minimálne — lowest degree
• Slovak: minimálni — lowest degree
• Slovak: minimálne — lowest degree
• Spanish: mínimo — lowest degree
• Tagalog: kubdulin — lowest degree
• Thai: ขั้นต่ํา (kân-dtàm) — lowest degree
• Vietnamese: tối thiểu — lowest degree
• Asturian: mínimu — lowest limit
• Bulgarian: минимум (minimum) — lowest limit
• Catalan: mínim — lowest limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 最小 (zuìxiǎo) — lowest limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 最低 (zuìdī) — lowest limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 極小 /极小 (jíxiǎo) — lowest limit
• Chinese Mandarin: 最小值 (zuìxiǎozhí) — lowest limit
• Czech: minimum — lowest limit
• Esperanto: minimumo — lowest limit
• Finnish: minimi — lowest limit
• Finnish: alaraja — lowest limit
• French: minimum (plural minima m or minimums m) — lowest limit
• Galician: mínimo — lowest limit
• Georgian: მინიმუმი (minimumi) — lowest limit
• Georgian: არანაკლები (aranaḳlebi) — lowest limit
• Georgian: სულ მცირე (sul mcire) — lowest limit
• Georgian: სულ ცოტა (sul coṭa) — lowest limit
• German: Minimum — lowest limit
• German: Mindestmaß — lowest limit
• Greek: ελάχιστο όριο (eláchisto ório) — lowest limit
• Greek: κατώτατο όριο (katótato ório) — lowest limit
• Hebrew: מִינִימוּם (minimum) — lowest limit
• Hebrew: מִזְעָר (miz'ár) — lowest limit
• Hebrew: מִצְעָר (mitz'ár) — lowest limit
• Hindi: न्यूनतम (nyūntam) — lowest limit
• Hindi: सबसे कम (sabse kam) — lowest limit
• Icelandic: lágmark — lowest limit
• Ido: minimo — lowest limit
• Italian: minimo — lowest limit
• Japanese: 最小 (saishō) — lowest limit
• Japanese: 最低 (saitei) — lowest limit
• Japanese: 極小 (kyokushō) — lowest limit
• Kazakh: ең аз шама (eñ az şama) — lowest limit
• Kazakh: ең аз сан (eñ az san) — lowest limit
• Khmer: ភាពតូចបំផុត (phiəp-toucbɑmphot) — lowest limit
• Latin: minimum — lowest limit
• Māori: mōkito — lowest limit
• Persian: حداقل (hadd-e-aqall) — lowest limit
• Persian: مینیمم (minimom) — lowest limit
• Persian: کمش (kamaš) — lowest limit
• Persian: کمینه (kamine) — lowest limit
• Portuguese: mínimo — lowest limit
• Romanian: minimum — lowest limit
• Romanian: minim — lowest limit
• Russian: ми́нимум (mínimum) — lowest limit
• Slovak: minimum — lowest limit
• Spanish: mínimo — lowest limit
• Spanish: mínimum — lowest limit
• Swedish: minimum — lowest limit
• Tagalog: kubdulan — lowest limit
• Tajik: камаш (kamaš) — lowest limit
• Tajik: ҳаддиақал (haddiaqal) — lowest limit
• Telugu: కనిష్టం (kaniṣṭaṁ) — lowest limit
• Turkish: en az — lowest limit
• Turkish: en düşük — lowest limit
• Vietnamese: tối thiểu — lowest limit
• Volapük: minum — lowest limit