The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.

synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter.

Roget 561: letter; character; hieroglyphic etc. (writing) 590; type etc. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC^†, abecedary^†, christcross-row.    consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong [Gramm.]; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural.    syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable^†, polysyllable; affix, suffix.    spelling, orthograph^†; phonography^†, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism^†, metagrammatism^†.    cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic^†.    ... show more

Dutch: minuskel, onderkast, kleine letters
Polish: mała litera, minuskuła, litera tekstowa

A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts.

Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries.

synonym: minuscular.

Lowercase:
— E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters.

synonyms: little, small.

Extremely small:
— A minuscule kitchen.
— A minuscule amount of rain fell.

synonym: miniscule.

Polish: maluśki