minor

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
2. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
3. (figuratively, sometimes) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
4. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
5. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
6. (Canada, US) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
7. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
8. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
9. (UK, dated) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
10. (historical) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
11. (historical) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
12. (obsolete) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
13. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
14. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Noun

1. A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
4. (Canada, US) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
5. (Canada, US, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
6. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
7. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
11. (Australian) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
14. Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
15. A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
16. Changes rung on six bells.
17. (obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
18. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
19. (UK, obsolete, rare) The younger brother of a pupil.
20. (abbreviation, alt-of) Short for graph minor

Verb

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Conceptos

menor

menor de edad

🔞

secundario

pequeño

niño

🧒

insignificante

fútil

mozalbete

hijo

infante

inferior

jovenzuelo

minorista

nene

niña

👧

alevín

benjamín

chiquillo

de cochinilla

incidental

pececillo

chiqüelo

muchachuelo

bajo

minor

chaval

🧒

chico

cría

🧒

criatura

crío

🧒

frívolo

hija

Sinónimos

insignificant

small

unimportant

secondary

trivial

underage

🔞

petty

trifling

slight

little

younger

child

🧒

negligible

subordinate

marginal

smaller

light

venial

lower

less

paltry

under age

junior

inconsiderable

inconsequential

small-scale

kid

🧒

nonaged

youngster

accessory

youth

inferior

young

trifle

immaterial

tiny

tyke

small fry

fry

puny

shaver

subsidiary

lesser

of no account

piddling

nestling

minority

modest

incidental

nipper

Traducciones

mineur

minore

menor

minorenne

Minderjähriger

menor

ανήλικος

Moll

ελάσσων

kleiner

minderjarige

Minderjährige

μικρός

unbedeutend

küçük

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: minor

Cognado con latín: minimum

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: minniro

Cognado con córnico: minow

In summary

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

Oraciones

His wife and son had minor injuries .

Su esposa e hijo tuvieron heridas leves.

A library was also established at that time and other minor changes were made .

También se estableció una biblioteca en ese momento y se hicieron otros cambios menores.

The rim is otherwise relatively sharply defined , with only a minor amount of wear .

El borde se define de otra manera relativamente bruscamente, con solo una cantidad menor de desgaste.

This tension together with some minor injuries made Souness less keen to keep him .

Esta tensión junto con algunas heridas leves hicieron que la sounes fuera menos interesada en mantenerlo.