Diminuo, dimínuis, dimínui, diminûtum, pen. pro. diminúere. To diminish or cut off: to breake in peeces: to strike.Detrabere & diminuere.Cic.Auxilio diminui. Ci. To haue their aide diminished or pulled from them.Ira diminuitur.Ouid.Quod nostro negotio diminutum fuerit, exæquabimus industria. Author ad Her. That shall lacke in our businesse we will supplie, &c.Diminuere de. Cæs. Neque de tanta voluptate & gratulatione quicquam fortuna diminuerar. Diminuere ex.Liu. Diminutum ex regia potestate. De bonis alicuius diminuere.Cic.De præsidijs diminuere. Cice. To minish part of the garrison.Diminuam ego caput tuum, nisi, &c. Ter. I will breake thy head, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dī-mĭnŭo (or dimmĭnuo), ĕre, v. a., to break into small pieces, to dash to pieces, to break (v. deminuo—rare; perh. only ante-class.): qui ego illi speculo dimminuam caput, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 109; cf.: caput homini, id. Men. 2, 2, 30: caput tuum, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 33: cerebrum tibi, id. Ad. 4, 2, 32; Lucr. 1, 614.—II.To violate, outrage, destroy by outrage: veritates, Vulg. Psa. 11, 1: de verbis libri, id. Apoc. 22, 19 (perh. deminuerit is a better reading).
