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}
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"roman": "ḥarf ṣaḡīr",
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],
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "小寫字母"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "ziǎoxiězìmǔ",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "小写字母"
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "nusxuri aso",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "ნუსხური ასო"
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"roman": "mikró grámma",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "kisbetű"
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "minuskulo"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "minuscolo"
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"alt": "こもじ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "komoji",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "小文字"
},
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"alt": "小文字",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "somunja",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "소문자"
},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mala bukva",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"word": "minúscula"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
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"word": "minusculă"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "literă mică"
},
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"_dis1": "62 11 26",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stročnája búkva",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "строчна́я бу́ква"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "málenʹkaja búkva",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ма́ленькая бу́ква"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "мало слово"
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mala začetnica"
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"lang": "Swedish",
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"word": "liten bokstav"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "malá lítera",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "мала́ лі́тера"
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{
"_dis1": "62 11 26",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "lower-case letter",
"word": "chữ nhỏ"
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"ref": "2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, Reaktion Books, page 254",
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"4": "less, smaller"
},
"expansion": "minus (“less, smaller”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "-culus",
"pos": "diminutive suffix"
},
"expansion": "-culus (diminutive suffix)",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "more minuscule",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most minuscule",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "minuscule (comparative more minuscule, superlative most minuscule)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Written in minuscules, lowercase."
],
"links": [
[
"lowercase",
"lowercase#English:_adjective"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:adjective-1"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Written in minuscule handwriting style."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a minuscule dot",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74",
"text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very small; tiny."
],
"links": [
[
"small",
"small"
],
[
"tiny",
"tiny"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪn.ʊˌskjuːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪn.jʊˌskjuːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪn.əˌskjul/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪˈnʌsˌkjul/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-minuscule.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-minuscule.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-minuscule.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-minuscule.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-minuscule.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "lower-case"
},
{
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "small"
},
{
"sense": "very small",
"word": "microscopic"
},
{
"sense": "very small",
"word": "minute"
},
{
"sense": "very small",
"word": "tiny"
},
{
"english": "but now so common that it has come to be considered an alternative spelling by many",
"word": "miniscule"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "pienin kirjaimin kirjoitettu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "minuscule"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "Klein-"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "minúsculo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "minúscula"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "written in minuscules",
"word": "minudik"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎničǎk",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "мъничък"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "minúscul"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drobný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nepatrný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "malinký"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "malgrandega"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "mitätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "olematon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "minuscule"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "klitzeklein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "winzig"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "minuscolo"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "waishou",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "矮小"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "minúsculo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "minúsculo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "jätteliten"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "pytteliten"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "very small, tiny",
"word": "vemo smalik"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"minuscule"
],
"word": "minuscule"
}
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