The corpus record — Latin

minusculus

somewhat smallej

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Where it lives

Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. minusculus — de Vaan

minusculus 'somewhat smallej' (P1.+), minu/imus 'smallest, least' (P1.+), mlscellus 'very small; miscellaneous' (Cato, Varro, of uva and; vitis: 'an inferior type of grape and the vine producing if), minister 'helping; servant, assistant' (Varro+), ministrare 'to wait on, provide' (P1.+), ministra 'provider, female servant' (Varro+), ministerium 'service, attendance' (Varro+), ministrator 'attendant' (Naev.+); … — [de Vaan, s.v. minusculus, p. 395]

2. mĭnuscŭlus — Lewis & Short

mĭnuscŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [1. minus], rather less, rather small (class.): ostium, Poët. ap. Macr. S. 3, 12: aviarium, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5: cupae, Cato, R. R. 12: nomen, very short, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 46: villa, Cic. Att. 14, 13, 5: epistola, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4.— Of persons: meretrix, Plaut. Poen. 2, 50.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. minusculus (scan p. 395; entry #1055).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. minusculus (scan p. 428; entry #6884).

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