how to pronounce minim

/ˈmɪn.ɪm/

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minim is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of minim in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… at the minim you manage a company and …”

meanings of minim

noun:

A small fish; a minnow.
A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
A short poetical encomium.
The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
A little man or being; a dwarf.
A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

minim frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word minim occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics minim can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that minim can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;