Minutâtim, pen. prod. Aliud Aduerbium. Idem. Colum. Peece meale: in gobbetes: by little and little: leysurely.Minutatim interrogare. Cicero. To aske diuers and sundrie questions.Minutatim & gradatim aliquid addere, aut demere. Cice. Minutatim. Varro. By little and little.Ossa minutatim morbo collapsa.Virg.Decayed by litle and little.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mĭnūtātim, adv. [id.], piecemeal, in little bits; piece by piece, little by little; gradually, by degrees; singly, one by one (class.): nasturtium consectum minutatim, Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 6: cribrare terram,
to sift small
, Plin. 17, 11, 15, 76: interrogare, i. e.
in little questions, by bits, always adding something
, Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 92: aliquid addere, id. ib. 2, 16, 49: assuefaciant, Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 2: discere, Lucr. 5, 1384: se recipere, Auct. B. Afr. 31: cedere, id. ib. 78: singulos convenire,