minimal (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[minimal 词源字典]
"smallest, least," 1660s, from Latin minimus (see minim) + -al (1).[minimal etymology, minimal origin, 英语词源]
minimalise (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
chiefly British English spelling of minimalize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Minimalised; minimalising.
minimalist (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1907; see minimal + -ist. Originally an Englishing of Menshevik (q.v.); in sense of "practitioner of minimal art" it is first recorded 1967; the term minimal art is from 1965. As an adjective from 1917 in the Russian political sense; 1969 in reference to art. Related: Minimalistic; Minimalism.
minimalize (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1914, see minimal + -ize. Related: Minimalized; minimalizing.
minimally (adv.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1894, from minimal + -ly (2).