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The adjective meaning "tiny" is minutus, -a, -um.

The noun meaning "1/60th of an hour" does not have a classical Latin equivalent. The hour varied in duration according to the time of year, since the Romans defined the hour as 1/12 of the time between sunrise and sunset. The minute as a strict division of this variable hour would not have been terribly useful.

The Romans did have a phrase that can be translated "moment", momentum temporis ("moment of time"), and this can often be used to translate English "minute" as long as an exact period of time is not meant. For example, the English expression "in a minute" can translated into Latin as momento temporis.

In more recent, post-Renaissance scholarly Latin, the word minuta (-ae, f.) appears.

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