See also:

• MINIM (adapted from Lat. minimus, the smallest; a superlative formed from the Indo-Germanic root min-, small)

MINIM (adapted from See also:

• LAT

Lat. minimus, the smallest; a superlative formed from the Indo-Germanic See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root See also:

• MIN

min-, small)  , the smallest possible See also:

• PART

part of a thing, a particle . In See also:

• MUSIC

music the name " See also:

• MINIM (adapted from Lat. minimus, the smallest; a superlative formed from the Indo-Germanic root min-, small)

minim " (nota minima) was given by See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval musicians to a See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note whose value was See also:

• HALF

half a semibreve . It was, as its name implies, the note of the shortest duration then in use . In See also:

• MODERN

modern music several notes of lesser value, as the " See also:

• CROTCHET (from the Fr. croche, a hook; whence also the Anglicized " crochet," pronounced as in French, for the knitting-work done with a hook instead of on pins)

crotchet " and " quaver," have been added, and the minim is now about half-way in the See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale of " values." According to See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• MORLEY
• MORLEY [oP BLACKBURN], JOHN MORLEY
• MORLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• MORLEY, GEORGE (1597-1684)
• MORLEY, HENRY (1822-1894)
• MORLEY, SAMUEL (18o9–1886)

Morley (A Plaine and Easie Introduction to See also:

• PRACTICAL

Practical Music, 1597), its introduction into See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript music is ascribed to Phillipus de Vitriaco, a musician of the 14th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . In See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine a minim is the smallest fluid measure, being equal to one drop . Sixty minims make a fluid drachm . For the religious See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

Order known as " Minims " see See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS OF PAOLA, ST .