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• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn.i/, Rhymes: -ɪni

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• Homophone: many (pin–pen merger)

From the prefix mini-.

mini (not comparable)

1. Miniature, tiny, small.

See also mini-.

Abbrevations.

mini (plural minis)

1. Abbreviation of miniskirt.
   • 2010, Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood:

     All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire. […] Most important is rolling your skirt so that it is a virtual mini […]

2. (dated) Abbreviation of minicomputer.
   • 1975 June 25, Computerworld, page 20:

     Micros will move upwards to where they have the same power and speed as today's minis.

   • 1976, E. Salkovitz, “Science, Technology, and the Modern Navy: Thirtieth Anniversary, 1946-1976”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Office of Naval Research, page 474:

     Time sharing will be done by the mini because time sharing (the bulk of which is simple text editing) is the wrong thing to do on a maxi and the right thing on a mini.

3. (roleplaying games, board games) Abbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).

   You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.

4. (informal, choreography) A very young dancer.
5. A small bottle of perfume.
   • 2013, Barbara Herman, Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, page 261:

     In addition to decants, minis, and used bottles of vintage, perfume nips are a fun way to try out vintage, and they seem to be all over the Internet.

• mini-
• miniature
• minimum
• minor

• IINM, imin

• mine

From Latin mē, possibly through Vulgar Latin mēne (a root), or through analogy with tsini, from *quene, from quem. Compare Romanian mine, also Dalmatian main.

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mini

1. I
2. me

• io/iou
• mi

• tu, tini / tine
• el / elu, nãs / nes
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj / ei, nesh

mini

1. water

• Deng Gideon Kol, John Majok Matuek, Tim Stirtz, Beli Dictionary (Juba, SIL-South Sudan, 2013)

mini

1. inflection of minar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• mni (Yankton)

From Proto-Siouan *warį́ (“water”).

mini

1. water

Back-formation from of words with the prefix mini-.

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mini (not comparable)

1. mini (tiny)

   Synonym: inimini

   Antonym: mega

Declension of mini
uninflected	mini
inflected	mini
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		mini
indefinite	m./f. sing.	mini
	n. sing.	mini
	plural	mini
definite		mini
partitive		mini's

minꜝi

1. water

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ekpeye

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni/

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mini (feminine minie, masculine plural minis, feminine plural minies)

1. small; tiny

mini

1. (colloquial) minimum; minimally

• maxi

• “mini”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• miri, midi (older forms)

mini

1. water

• Alfred W. Bowers, Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (1963, →ISBN: "miri" (but see also [2])
• Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians, by W. Matthews (1877), noting "the interchangeability of certain lingual and labial sounds in the Hidatsa": "mini or midi"

From English mini.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmini]
• Hyphenation: mi‧ni
• Rhymes: -ni

mini (comparative minibb, superlative legminibb)

1. small, tiny

mini (plural minik)

1. miniskirt

   Synonym: miniszoknya

Borrowed from English mini, mini-.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmini/ [ˈmi.ni]
• Rhymes: -ini
• Syllabification: mi‧ni

mini (comparative lebih mini, superlative paling mini)

1. mini

• “mini”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/
• Rhymes: -ini
• Hyphenation: mì‧ni

mini f (invariable)

1. miniskirt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mini

1. inflection of minare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

mini

1. inflection of minēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

mini

1. second-person singular past indicative of mīt

mini

1. romanization of ᠮᡳᠨᡳ

mini

1. water

• Will and Spinden, The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language

mini

1. water

• Roger Blench, A Dictionary of Ọgbà, an Igboid Language of Southern Nigeria (2005)

Unadapted borrowing from French mini.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɲi/

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• Rhymes: -iɲi
• Syllabification: mi‧ni
• Homophone: mini-

mini (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. mini (miniature, small, tiny)

   Antonym: maksi

2. (of clothes) mini (mid-thigh or shorter)

   Antonym: maksi

3. mini (lasting for a very short time)

mini f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) mini, miniskirt

   Synonyms: miniówka, minispódniczka

   Antonym: maksi

• “mini”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “mini”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French mini.

mini m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. mini

mini (Cyrillic spelling мини)

1. second-person singular imperative of minuti

míni

1. second-person singular imperative of miniti

mini m or f (masculine and feminine plural minis)

1. mini

mini

1. water

• Kambari survey entry 2 - Scanned Wordlist Files: Kambari of Niger and Kebbi states, Nigeria, page 10