Diminished
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late Middle English: blend of archaic minish ‘diminish’ (based on Latin minutia ‘smallness’) and obsolete diminue ‘speak disparagingly’ (based on Latin deminuere ‘lessen’ (in late Latin diminuere ), from minuere ‘make small’).
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diminished (adj.)
c. 1600, "made smaller, lessened, contracted," past-participle adjective from diminish. In music, in reference to chords, "having a diminished interval between its upper and lower tones," by 1720s.
