Minor, absoluté. Vlpian. Yonger.Minor annis. Idem. Vlpianus. Minor annis viginti quinque, Idem. Vlpianus. Vnder xxv. yeares of age.Minor qum quinque & viginti annorum, Idem. Cels. Minor natu.Cic.Yonger.Nequis minor triginta annis natu.Cic.Aliquot annis minor natu.Cic.Virtute & honore minores. Horat. Inferiour in vertue and honour.Animus minor. Hor. Cura non minor. Virg.Seruiet domino non minori.Plin. iun.He shall serue a maister of no lesie dignitie or authoritie.Filius minor.Terent.The yonger sonne.Minorum gentium patricij.Cicer.The children of those Senatours that were adopted by the people ouer and aboue them that were first ordeyned by Romulus.Infamia minor vero.Ouid. Metus minor. Horat. Ira minor.Ouid. Pontifices minores. Liu.Mensura minor.Ouid. Sumptus minor. Horat. Verbis minoribus vti.Ouid.To vse not so haulte & prowde wordes.Virtus minor.Ouid.Quasi istic minor mea res agatur, qum tua.Terent.As though this matter touched not mee as muche as it doth you. Minôris vendere aliquid.Plaut.To sell better cheape.Multò minotis vendidit non modò qum tu, sed etiã qum qui ante te vendiderunt.Cic.Minoris dimidio. Plin. For lesse by halfe.Minoris æstimare.Cic.To set lesse by.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., collat. form of minor (ante-class., acc. to Prisc. p. 799, but v. Lachm. ad Lucr. 6, 563.—From the application of the words minari and minae to the threatening cries of cattledrivers is doubtless derived the old rustic signif., also generally adopted in the postclass. per. into the literary lang.), to drive animals: asinos et equum minantes baculis exigunt, App. M. 3, p. 141: asinum, id. ib. 8, p. 216: me ut suam juvencam, Aus. Epigr. 67, 3: gregem ad interiora deserti, Vulg. Exod. 3, 1: per omnem mundum (so, vaccam), Schol. Juv. 6, 526: agasones equos agentes, id est minantes, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. agasones, p. 25 Müll.—Pass. transf.: cum a validis ventis minentur (naves), Vulg. Jac. 3, 4; id. Nah. 2, 7.—Of men: eos a tribunali, Vulg. Act. 18, 16.—Hence the Ital. menare; Fl. mener.