n.
    - Music,  Brit. a note having the time value of two crotchets or half a semibreve, represented by a ring with a stem.
 - a small bronze or silver ancient Roman coin.
 - one sixtieth of a fluid drachm, about one drop of liquid.
 - (in calligraphy) a short vertical stroke, as in the letters i, m, n, u.
 
 
  Etymology
  ME: from L. minima, from minimus ‘smallest’.