minuscule

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation, uncommon: /ˈmɪnjəˌskjuːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnjʊˌskjuːl/
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• General-American: /ˈmɪnəˌskjul/
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• General-American: /mɪˈnʌsˌkjul/
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 N AH0 S K Y UW2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: pienin kirjaimin kirjoitettu — written in minuscules
• French: minuscule — written in minuscules
• German: Klein- — written in minuscules
• Portuguese: minúsculo — written in minuscules
• Spanish: minúscula — written in minuscules
• Volapük: minudik — written in minuscules
• Bulgarian: мъничък (mǎničǎk) — very small, tiny
• Catalan: minúscul — very small, tiny
• Czech: drobný — very small, tiny
• Czech: nepatrný — very small, tiny
• Czech: malinký — very small, tiny
• Esperanto: malgrandega — very small, tiny
• Finnish: mitätön — very small, tiny
• Finnish: olematon — very small, tiny
• French: minuscule — very small, tiny
• German: klitzeklein — very small, tiny
• German: winzig — very small, tiny
• Italian: minuscolo — very small, tiny
• Japanese: 矮小 (waishou) — very small, tiny
• Portuguese: minúsculo — very small, tiny
• Spanish: minúsculo — very small, tiny
• Swedish: jätteliten — very small, tiny
• Swedish: pytteliten — very small, tiny
• Tagalog: menuskula — very small, tiny
• Tagalog: minuskula — very small, tiny
• Volapük: vemo smalik — very small, tiny
• Arabic: حَرْف صَغِير (ḥarf ṣaḡīr) — lower-case letter
• Armenian: փոքրատառ (pʻokʻrataṙ) — lower-case letter
• Belarusian: мала́я лі́тара (malája lítara) — lower-case letter
• Belarusian: мала́я бу́ква (malája búkva) — lower-case letter
• Bulgarian: ма́лка бу́ква (málka búkva) — lower-case letter
• Catalan: minúscula — lower-case letter
• Chinese Mandarin: 小寫字母 /小写字母 (ziǎoxiězìmǔ) — lower-case letter
• Czech: minuskule — lower-case letter
• Czech: malé písmeno — lower-case letter
• Danish: lille bogstav — lower-case letter
• Dutch: minuskel — lower-case letter
• Dutch: kleine letter — lower-case letter
• Esperanto: minusklo — lower-case letter
• Finnish: pienaakkonen — lower-case letter
• Finnish: pieni kirjain — lower-case letter
• Finnish: minuskeli — lower-case letter
• French: minuscule — lower-case letter
• Georgian: ნუსხური ასო (nusxuri aso) — lower-case letter
• German: Kleinbuchstabe — lower-case letter
• German: Gemeinbuchstabe — lower-case letter
• German: Gemeiner (der Gemeine) — lower-case letter
• Greek: μικρό γράμμα (mikró grámma) — lower-case letter
• Greek: πεζό γράμμα (pezó grámma) — lower-case letter
• Hungarian: kisbetű — lower-case letter
• Hungarian: minuszkula — lower-case letter
• Ido: minuskulo — lower-case letter
• Italian: minuscolo — lower-case letter
• Japanese: 小文字 (komoji) — lower-case letter
• Korean: 소문자 (somunja) — lower-case letter
• Macedonian: мала буква (mala bukva) — lower-case letter
• Manx: lettyr beg — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Bokmål: minuskel — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Bokmål: gemen — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Bokmål: liten bokstav — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: minuskel — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gemen — lower-case letter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: liten bokstav — lower-case letter
• Polish: minuskuła — lower-case letter
• Polish: mała litera — lower-case letter
• Portuguese: minúscula — lower-case letter
• Romanian: minusculă — lower-case letter
• Romanian: literă mică — lower-case letter
• Russian: строчна́я бу́ква (stročnája búkva) — lower-case letter
• Russian: ма́ленькая бу́ква (málenʹkaja búkva) — lower-case letter
• Serbo-Croatian: мало слово — lower-case letter
• Serbo-Croatian: malo slovo — lower-case letter
• Slovak: malé písmeno — lower-case letter
• Slovene: mala začetnica — lower-case letter
• Spanish: minúscula — lower-case letter
• Spanish: letra de caja baja — lower-case letter
• Swedish: gemen — lower-case letter
• Swedish: liten bokstav — lower-case letter
• Ukrainian: мала́ лі́тера (malá lítera) — lower-case letter
• Ukrainian: мала́ бу́ква (malá búkva) — lower-case letter
• Uzbek: kichik harf — lower-case letter
• Vietnamese: chữ nhỏ — lower-case letter
• Vietnamese: chữ thường — lower-case letter
• Volapük: minud — lower-case letter
• German: Minuskel — medieval handwriting style
• Hungarian: minuszkula — medieval handwriting style
• Russian: мину́скул (minúskul) — medieval handwriting style
• Russian: мину́скул (minúskul) — letter in this style