minuet
MIN-yoo-et · noun
Origin
From French menuet, built from menu ("small") plus the diminutive ending -et, tracing back to Latin minutus, meaning "very small."
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Related words
It shares its root with words descended from Latin minutus, tying it to the idea of something reduced or fine in scale.