Words that come from Latin “minae”

325 words across 48 languages descend from Latin minae — including minor, minority, menace, menacing, amenities, minuscule, amenity, menacingly.

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Latin (65)

English (59)

Spanish (31)

Italian (24)

French (20)

Romanian (17)

Portuguese (14)

Catalan (11)

Old French (8)

Esperanto (6)

Middle French (4)

Old Portuguese (4)

Vulgar Latin (4)

Middle English (4)

Norman (3)

Polish (3)

Venetian (2)

Tagalog (2)

Friulian (2)

Ido (2)

Greek (2)

Dutch (2)

Franco-Provençal (2)

Late Latin (2)

Russian (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Indonesian (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Chavacano (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Finnish (2)

Maltese (2)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Ladin (1)

Telugu (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Franc-Comtois (1)

Cebuano (1)

German (1)

Occitan (1)

Malay (1)

Bikol Central (1)

Turkish (1)

Persian (1)

Japanese (1)

Chinese (1)