μινυνθάνω

μῐνυνθάνω [ᾰ],

A = μινύθω I,

μινυνθάνει ἀγλαὸν ἥβην PMich.11.7

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `lessen, curtail', also trans. `reduce' (Il.).

Other forms: μινυνθάνω PMich.); ipf. - ύθεσκον ( ἐμινύθει Hp.), fut. μινυθήσω, aor. - ῆσαι, perf. μεμινύθηκα (Hp.).

Compounds: Rarely with περι-, συν-, ἀπο-.

Derivatives: Medical terms: μινύθ-ησις f. `waning', - ήματα pl. `what is lessening, dying members', - ώθης `weak, lessening' (Hp.; on the verbal derivation Chantraine Form. 431), - ικός `diminishing' (Cael. Aur.). -- Besides μίνυνθα adv. `(only) a short time' with μινυνθάδιος `lasting a short time' (Il.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [711] * min(e)u- `lessen, diminish'

Etymology: Built after the synonym φθινύθω, either from a νυ-present (: Lat. minu-ō, *φθίνϜ-ω) or from an adj. *μινύς ( βαρύθω: βαρύς), which seems preserved as 1. member in a few though late and rarely attested compp.: μινύ-ωρος, - ώριος `living a short time' (AP), μινύ-ζηον ὀλιγό-βιον H. Also in μίνυνθα one has supposed the same adj., i. e. in the acc. *μινύν (with - θα after the opposite δηθά a.o.) Osthoff MU 6, 232ff.; slight objections by Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 106 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1163). An IE adj. * minu-s is also supposed by Lat. minu-ō, prob. also by minus (second. s-stem) and is assumed also for Celtic and Germanic. If we detract a suffixal - nu-, we can connect μείων etc. (s.v.). On a possible confusion with μάνυ, μανός `thin' s. Wackernagel Festgabe II. Jacobi [1926] 3 (= Kl. Schr. 1, 419); on μινύθω s. also Schwyzer 697, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 326 f. More details in WP. 2, 242, Pok. 711, W.-Hofmann s. minor.

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