🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

minuto

Pronunciation / Transliteration: miˈnuːto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Minute/ˈmɪn.ɪt/
nounadjectiveCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #85 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Aspetta un minuto, per favore."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A unit of time equal to sixty seconds or one-sixtieth of an hour.

    "She will be ready to leave in just five minutes."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Extremely small, tiny, or precise in detail.

    "The detective examined the crime scene with minute attention to detail."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'minutus', meaning 'made small' or 'minute', past participle of 'minuere' (to lessen). Through Old French 'minut', it entered Middle English initially to denote a sixtieth part of an hour, and later expanded to mean extremely small.

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