As I mentioned above, minuscule is related to the word minus, but some have come to associate it with mini, an abbreviation of miniature.
NASA's Kepler Provides Another Peek at Ultra-cool Neighbor, NASA The contrast solution that the team developed contains a short piece of protein, or peptide, tagged with a minuscule magnet.
The second was the existence of semantically similar words that contained the spelling mini, such as miniature and minimum.