# minion
## English
### Etymology

1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪnjən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophone: minyan
* Rhymes: -ɪnjən
* Hyphenation: min‧ion

### Noun

minion (countable and uncountable, plural minions)
* A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
    Synonyms: disciple, follower; see also Thesaurus:loyal follower
    The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city.
** 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
* A sycophantic follower.
* (uncountable, typography, printing) The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
* (obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
** 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes:God's disciple and his dearest minion
** c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?
* (obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
** 1647, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, The Double Marriage (play), published 1717, page 19:Gun. My Cannons rung like Bells. Here's to my Mistress, The dainty sweet brass Minion: split their Fore-mast, She never fail'd.
* Obsolete form of minium.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:Of philosophers and scholars priscae sapientiae dictatores, I have already spoken in general terms, those superintendents of wit and learning, men above men, those refined men, minions of the muses.

#### Derived terms

* miniondom
* (type size): minionette
* minionhood
* minioning
* minionish
* minionlike
* minionly
* minionship

#### Translations
### Adjective

minion (comparative more minion, superlative most minion)
* (obsolete) Favoured, beloved; "pet".
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book 1, P.148, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupt […] his libertie, and dazle his judgement.

## Chuukese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English million.

### Numeral

minion
* million

## Welsh
### Etymology

From min +‎ -ion.

### Noun

minion
* plural of min

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.