[びりょう, biryou] (n, adj-na, adj-no) minuscule amount; extremely small quantity; (P) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Minuscule \Mi*nus"cule\, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr.
minus less: cf. F. minuscule.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Any very small, minute object.
[1913 Webster]
2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial;
a manuscript written in such letters.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
minuscule \minuscule\ adj. a.
Of or relating to a minuscule[2] or of a script written in
minuscules[2]; of the size and style of minuscules[2];
written in minuscules[2]; minuscular.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the
earlier uncials. --I. Taylor
(The
Alphabet).
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
minuscule
adj 1: of or relating to a small cursive script developed from
uncial; 7th to 9th centuries [syn: {minuscule},
{minuscular}] [ant: {majuscule}]
2: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little},
{minuscule}, {small}]
3: very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of
rain fell" [syn: {minuscule}, {miniscule}]
n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a
compositor's type case [syn: {small letter}, {lowercase},
{lower-case letter}, {minuscule}] [ant: {capital}, {capital
letter}, {majuscule}, {upper-case letter}, {uppercase}]
2: a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th
and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
minuscule /minyskyl/
lower case letter; small letter
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