Minute

See also: minute, minutė, minutë, minuté, minūte, and minūtē

German

Alternative forms

• Minut f or n (obsolete)

Etymology

15th c., from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnuːtə/

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• Rhymes: -uːtə
• Hyphenation: Mi‧nu‧te

Noun

Minute f (genitive Minute, plural Minuten, diminutive Minütchen n or Minuterl n)

1. minute (unit of time; unit of angle)
   • 1742, Adam Adolph Schöpfflein, Specimen trigonometriae ad fortificatoriam applicatae, oder trigonometrische Berechnung aller Linien und Winckel, page 8:

     Jeder Grad oder 360ste Theil des Circkels wird ferner vertheilt in 60. andere Theil, und heissen Minuten, ein jedes Minut wieder in 60. Theil oder Secunda, ein jedes Secund weiter in 60. Theil oder 3tia [i.e. tertia] rc.

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Declension

Declension of Minute [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Minute	die	Minuten
genitive	einer	der	Minute	der	Minuten
dative	einer	der	Minute	den	Minuten
accusative	eine	die	Minute	die	Minuten

Derived terms

• minütlich

Related terms

• minutengenau, Minutengericht, minutenlang, Minutentakt, minutenweise, Minutenzeiger
• Gedenkminute, Gehminute, Schweigeminute

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: мину́та (minúta)
  • → Macedonian: минута (minuta)
• → Czech: minuta
• → Estonian: minut
• → Latvian: minūte
• → Lithuanian: minutė
• → Lower Sorbian: minuta
• → Old Polish: minuta (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: минута (minuta) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • minúta / мину́та (Croatia)
  • mìnūt / мѝнӯт (Bosnia, Serbia)
• → Slovak: minúta
  • → Pannonian Rusyn: минута (minuta)
• → Slovene: minȗta

Further reading

• “Minute”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Minute” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Minute” in Duden online
• Minute on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Minute” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.