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Where does “minuta” come from?

minuta (French) comes from French minuter, from French minute, from Old French minute, from Latin minuta, from Latin minūtus, from Proto-Italic minwō, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.

minuta (French): third-person singular past historic of minuter

Definitions

  1. third-person singular past historic of minuter

Ancestry of “minuta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchminuterto time; to take minutes
2Frenchminuteminute; wait a sec!; first-person singular...
3Old Frenchminuteminute
4Latinminutanominative feminine singular of minūtus;...
5Latinminūtus—
6Proto-Italicminwō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear
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