minus

Etymology
From, from , neuter form of , comparative form of , from the root.

Preposition

 * 1)  Made less or reduced by.
 * 2)  Without; deprived of.
 * 1)  Without; deprived of.
 * 1)  Without; deprived of.

Translations

 * Arabic: نَاقَص
 * Egyptian Arabic: ناقص
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Basque: ken
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: минус
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 減
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:, מינוס
 * Hindi:, घटाकर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: mínus
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: lúide
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: минус
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: कमी
 * Norwegian: minus
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: கழித்தல்
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: منفی
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: namyn
 * Yiddish: מינוס

Noun

 * 1)  The minus sign (−).
 * 2)  A negative quantity.
 * 3) A downside or disadvantage.
 * 1) A downside or disadvantage.

Translations

 * German:
 * Icelandic: neikvæð tala, tala sem er minni en núll
 * Japanese: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: отрица́тельная величина́
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: negativ kvantitet
 * Thai:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: mínus, ókostur
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Korean:
 * Mandarin:, (jiǎn qù)

Adjective

 * 1) Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction.
 * a minus number
 * 1) That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale.
 * minus seven degrees
 * 1)  Worse off than before; out of pocket.
 * 2) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 301:
 * The races being finished, we left Epsom for London, Mordaunt's natural vile temper not being at all improved by being three hundred pounds minus by the week's speculation.
 * 1)  Ranking just below (a designated rating).
 * He got a grade of B minus for his essay.

Synonyms

 * zero (after the noun)
 * zero (after the noun)

Translations

 * Arabic: سَالِب
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: mínus, sem lýtur að frádrætti, frádráttar,, minni en núll
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: minus
 * Dutch:, onder nul (after the noun)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: mínus,, minni en núll
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: mínus
 * Russian: с ми́нусом
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To subtract.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) minus

Etymology
, from.

Declension
when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

Adverb

 * 1)  minus, less

Adverb

 * 1) less

le minus


 * 1) the least

Etymology
From. Related to.

Adverb

 * 1)

Descendants

 * Italo-Romance:
 * Northern Gallo-Romance:
 * Padanian:
 * Southern Gallo-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Padanian:
 * Southern Gallo-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Borrowings:
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Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) minus, minus sign

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) minus sign
 * 2) minuns, defect, deficiency

Noun

 * 1) minus sign,