minuta

minuta f pl

1. plural of minutë

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnuta]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

Borrowed from German Minute, from Late Latin minūta.

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time)
2. minute (unit of angular measure)

• See minus

• “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), 2008–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

minuta

1. inflection of minout:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter plural passive participle

• IPA^(key): /mi.ny.ta/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophones: minutas, minutât

minuta

1. third-person singular past historic of minuter

minuta (plural minutas)

1. minute

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: mi‧nù‧ta

minuta

1. feminine singular of minuto

minuta f (plural minute)

1. draft

• manitù, munita

• mënuta, manuta (regional)

Borrowed from Polish minuta.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowi)

1. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
2. minute (short amount of time)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “minuta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “minuta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• minūta:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnuː.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnuː.ta]

minūta

1. inflection of minūtus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

minūtā

1. ablative feminine singular of minūtus

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

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

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time)

• minutowy

Borrowed from Italian minuto.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈnuː.ta/
• Rhymes: -uːta

minuta f (plural minuti)

1. minute

   Synonym: (obsolete) dqiqa

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta. Compare menut.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnyto/

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute (unit of time)

Learned borrowing from Latin minūta. First attested in 1420.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /mʲinuta/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /mʲinuta/

minuta f

1. 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^[3], 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]

• Polish: minuta
• Silesian: minuta

• 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
• Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “minuta”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎^[4] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
• 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

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

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

minuta f (diminutive minutka, related adjective minutowy, abbreviation min or min.)

2. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)
3. minute (short moment)

   Synonyms: chwila, moment, sekunda

4. (geometry) arcminute (1/60th of a degree)
5. (obsolete) abstract (document without a stamp or seal)

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

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.^[2]

• “minuta”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “minuta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)
• 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

• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

Learned borrowing from Latin minūta [scriptūra] (“diminished [writing]”). Doublet of miúda.

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. draft (usually of an official document)

   Synonym: rascunho

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

minuta

1. inflection of minutar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “minuta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “minuta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “minuta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• minut (Puter, Vallader)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin minūta.

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute

• mìnūt (Bosnia, Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /minǔːta/
• Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧ta

minúta f (Cyrillic spelling мину́та)

1. (Croatia) minute

Inherited from Old Polish minuta.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnu.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

minuta f (diminutive minutka)

1. minute (unit of time equal to sixty seconds)

• minuta in dykcjonorz.eu
• minuta in silling.org

• IPA^(key): /minúːta/

minȗta f

1. minute (unit of time)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	minúta
gen. sing.	minúte
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	minúta	minúti	minúte
genitive (rodȋlnik)	minúte	minút	minút
dative (dajȃlnik)	minúti	minútama	minútam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	minúto	minúti	minúte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	minúti	minútah	minútah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	minúto	minútama	minútami

• IPA^(key): /miˈnuta/ [miˈnu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: mi‧nu‧ta

Derived from French menu. Doublet of minuto, menudo.

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. rough draft

   Synonyms: boceto, bosquejo, borrador

2. bill, fee (for example, at a restaurant)

   Synonym: cuenta

3. list (of various things)

   Synonyms: lista, inventario

4. menu (at a restaurant)

   Synonyms: menú, carta

   El secretario será responsable de tomar las minutas de la reunión.

   The secretary will be responsible for taking the minutes of the meeting.

5. (Paraguay, Rioplatense, by association) bar food

   Synonyms: refrigerio, tentempié, bocadillo

Adapted borrowing of English minute.

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. minute, note (of a meeting)

   Synonyms: acta, nota

From menudo (“small”) +‎ -a in reference to ice granules.

minuta f (plural minutas)

1. (El Salvador) snow cone

   Synonym: raspado

• “minuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

minuta

1. abessive of minä