deminutus

dē-mĭnŭo, ui, ūtum, 3, v. a., to lessen by taking from, i. e. to make smaller, to lessen, diminish (cf. diminuo, to break up into small parts—freq. and class.).

I.

Lit.:

de mina una quinque nummos,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 10:

istum laborem tibi,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 43 (cf. Wagner ad loc.):

ne de bonis quae Octavii fuissent deminui pateretur,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 10; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 189:

deminuunt aequora venti,

Lucr. 5, 268; 390:

deminutae copiae,

Caes. B. G. 7, 31, 3; 7, 73; id. B. C. 3, 2; Liv. 2, 1; Tac. A. 12, 64 al.:

militum vires inopia frumenti deminuerat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 52; Tac. A. 13, 58:

fenore deminuto,

Suet. Aug. 41:

arborem,

Tac. A. 13, 58 al. —

II.

Trop.

A.

In gen., to take away from, abate, lessen, etc.:

de hujus praesidiis deminuturum putavit,

Cic. Sull. 1, 2:

neque de tanta voluptate et gratulatione quicquam fortuna deminuerat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 6:

aliquid de jure aut de legibus,

id. ib. 7, 33; Liv. 8, 34:

de sua in Aeduos benevoientia,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43, 4:

de libertate mea,

Cic. Planc. 38:

ex regia potestate,

Liv. 2, 1:

alicui timor studia deminuit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 31, 4:

partem aliquam juris,

Cic. Caecin. 2, 5; cf. Liv. 4, 24:

sententiam hujus interdicti (coupled with inflrmata),

Cic. Caecin, 13, 38:

dignitatem nostri collegii,

id. Brut. 1:

potentiam,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18, 8:

lenitatem imperitantis,

Tac. A. 16, 28:

curam,

Prop. 2, 18, 21 (3, 10, 21 M.) al.: se capite deminuere, to lose or forfeit civil rights, be deprived of citizenship, Cic. Top. 4, 18; 6, 29; Liv. 22, 60, 15; cf. caput, no. III. 1. b.—

B.

Esp. in grammat. lang., to form into a diminutive:

sacellum ex sacro deminutum est,

Gell. 6, 12, 6: deminuuntur adverbia, ut primum, primule; longe, longule, etc., Don. p. 21 Lind. N. cr. Cf.: deminutus, deminutio, and deminutivus.— Hence, dēmĭnūtus, a, um, P. a. (very rare), diminished, small, diminutive.

A.

In gen.:

deminutior qualitas,

Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 9.—

B.

In grammat. lang., diminutive, hupokoristikos (for which, later, deminutivus): pro nomine integro positum sit deminutum (viz. in the expression magnum peculiolum ), Quint. 1, 5, 46.