minuscule

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mi=nus=cule

CIDE DICTIONARY

minuscule, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr. minus less: cf. F. minuscule.].

•  Any very small, minute object.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.  [1913 Webster]

minuscule, adj. 

 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]
"These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

minuscule, n. & adj.
--n.
1 Palaeog. a kind of cursive script developed in the 7th c.
2 a lower-case letter.
--adj.
1 lower-case.
2 colloq. extremely small or unimportant.

Derivative

minuscular adj.

Etymology

F f. L minuscula (littera letter) dimin. of minor: see MINOR

THESAURUS

minuscule

abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo, uncial, upper-case, vest-pocket

ROGET THESAURUS

minuscule

Letter

N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial, letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.