# minuta
## Albanian
### Noun

minuta f pl
* plural of minutë

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɪnuta]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uta
* Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Minute, from Late Latin minūta.

#### Noun

minuta f
* minute (unit of time)
* minute (unit of angular measure)

##### Derived terms

* minutka

##### Related terms

* See minus

#### Further reading

* “minuta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “minuta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “minuta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

minuta
* inflection of minout:
** feminine singular passive participle
** neuter plural passive participle

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.ny.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: minutas, minutât

### Verb

minuta
* third-person singular past historic of minuter

## Interlingua
### Noun

minuta (plural minutas)
* minute

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnu.ta/
* Rhymes: -uta
* Hyphenation: mi‧nù‧ta

### Adjective

minuta
* feminine singular of minuto

### Noun

minuta f (plural minute)
* draft

### Anagrams

* manitù, munita

## Kashubian
### Alternative forms

* mënuta, manuta (regional)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish minuta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnu.ta/
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

### Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowi)
* minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
* minute (short amount of time)

### Further reading

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “minuta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “minuta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* minūta: (Classical Latin) IPA: /miˈnuː.ta/, [mɪˈnuːt̪ä]
* minūta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /miˈnu.ta/, [miˈnuːt̪ä]

### Participle

minūta
* inflection of minūtus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

minūtā
* ablative feminine singular of minūtus

### References

* "minuta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour", "note”).

### Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka)
* minute (unit of time)

#### Derived terms

* minutowy

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian minuto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪˈnuː.ta/
* Rhymes: -uːta

### Noun

minuta f (plural minuti)
* minute
    Synonym: (obsolete) dqiqa

#### Related terms

* minutament
* minutant
* minutarju
* minutiera

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta. Compare menut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnyto/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)
* minute (unit of time)

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin minūta. First attested in 1420.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /minuta/
* IPA: (15th CE) /minuta/

### Noun

minuta f
* concept, rough draft (preliminary drafting of a document without legal force)
** 1874 [1420], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące‎, volume VIII, page 460:To, czso mi dali vinø panowye ot krolya y ot koroni pospolstwa, tegom wschego... praw, a ginako tego zapissa albo compromissa-m nye widal, gedno yakom gy z minuti przet krolem czedl y oprawil[To, cso mi dali winę panowie ot krola i ot korony pospolstwa, tegom wszego... praw, a jinako tego zapisa albo kompromisa-m nie wydał, jedno jakom ji z minuty przed krolem czetł i oprawił]

#### Descendants

* Polish: minuta
* Silesian: minuta

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “minuta 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “minuta”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “minuta”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
   * B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “minuta”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish minuta. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French minute and German Minute. Doublet of menu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnu.ta/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /miˈnu.ta/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

### Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowy, abbreviation min or min.)
* minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
* minute (short moment)
    Synonyms: chwila, moment, sekunda
* (geometry) arcminute (1/60th of a degree)
* (obsolete) abstract (document without a stamp or seal)

#### Derived terms

* z minuty na minutę
* z minutami
* minutaż
* minutnik
* pięć minut

#### Related terms

* minuteczka

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: minuta, mënuta, manuta (regional)

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), minuta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 7 times in essays, 29 times in fiction, and 22 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 568th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “minuta 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “minuta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 249

### Further reading

* minuta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* minuta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “minuta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Ewa Rodek (21.05.2021) “MINUTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “minuta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 992

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnu.tɐ/
* Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)
* draft (usually of an official document)
    Synonym: rascunho

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

minuta
* inflection of minutar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “minuta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “minuta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* minut (Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.

### Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)
* minute

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* mìnūt (Bosnia, Serbia)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /minǔːta/
* Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

### Noun

minúta f (Cyrillic spelling мину́та)
* (Croatia) minute

#### Declension
## Silesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish minuta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnu.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

### Noun

minuta f (diminutive minutka)
* minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* minuta in dykcjonorz.eu
* minuta in silling.org

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /minúːta/

### Noun

minȗta f
* minute (unit of time)

#### Inflection
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta. Compare minuto, menudo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈnuta/ [miˈnu.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

### Noun

minuta f (plural minutas)
* rough draft
    Synonyms: boceto, bosquejo, borrador
* bill, fee (for example, at a restaurant)
    Synonym: cuenta
* list (of various things)
    Synonyms: lista, inventario
* menu (at a restaurant)
    Synonyms: menú, carta
* minute, note (of a meeting)
    Synonyms: acta, nota
    El secretario será responsable de tomar las minutas de la reunión.The secretary will be responsible for taking the minutes of the meeting.
* (Paraguay, Rioplatense) bar food
    Synonyms: refrigerio, tentempié, bocadillo
* (El Salvador) snow cone
    Synonym: raspado

### Further reading

* “minuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Veps
### Pronoun

minuta
* abessive of minä