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   minuscule

   /ˈmɪnɪskjuːl/

   adjective

   • 1. extremely small; tiny: "a minuscule fragment of DNA"
   • ▪ so small as to be insignificant: informal "he believed the risk of infection was minuscule"
   • 2. of or in lower-case letters, as distinct from capitals or uncials.
   • ▪ of or in a small cursive script of the Roman alphabet, with ascenders and descenders, developed in the 7th century ad.

   noun

   • 1. minuscule script: "the humanistic hands of the 15th century were based on the Carolingian minuscule"
   • ▪ a small or lower-case letter.

   Word Origin early 18th century: from French, from Latin minuscula (littera) ‘somewhat smaller (letter)’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. minuscular adjective

   Scrabble Points: 13

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