noun · neuterthird declension
minūtal
minūtal n (genitive minūtālis)
Classical[mɪˈnuː.taɫ]Ecclesiastical[miˈnuː.tal]
Meaning
- minced meat, ground meat, mince
Servōrum ventrēs modiō castīgat inīquō ipse quoque ēsuriēns, neque enim omnia sustinet umquam mūcida caeruleī pānis cōnsūmere frūsta, hesternum solitus mediō servāre minūtal Septembrī nec nōn differre in tempora cēnae alterius conchem aestīvam cum parte lacertī signātam vel dīmidiō putrīque silūrō
1881 translation by Lewis Evans While he is famishing himself, he pinches his servants' stomachs with the scantiest allowance, for he never endures to consume the whole of the blue fragments of mouldy bread, but saves, even in the middle of September, the mince of yesterday; and puts by till to-morrow's dinner the summer bean, with a piece of stockfish and half a stinking shad: and, after he has counted them, locks up the shreds of chopped leek.c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 14.129 - in pluraltrifles (petty things)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | minūtal | minūtālia |
| genitive | minūtālis | minūtālium |
| dative | minūtālī | minūtālibus |
| accusative | minūtal | minūtālia |
| ablative | minūtālī | minūtālibus |
| vocative | minūtal | minūtālia |
mĭnūtal, ālis, n. minutus.
II. In gen.: mĭnū-tālĭa, ĭum, petty or paltry things, trifles (post-class.), Tert. Hab. Mul. 6:
culices, formicae, tineae et hoc genus minutalia, id. Anim. 32.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
minūtal ālis, n
minutus, minced meat, hash , Iu.
Origins
Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From minūtus + -al.
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanmenudalla
- Catalanmenudall
- Occitanmenudalha
Insular Romance
- Sardinianminudaza
Balkano-Romance
- Romanianmăruntaie
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianminutaglia
- Venetanminudaja
- Venetanmenuaja
- Venetanmenuagia