menuise

• IPA^(key): /mə.nɥiz/

Inherited from Middle French menuise, itself inherited from Latin minūtia. Doublet of minutie.

menuise f (plural menuises) (archaic)

1. sprat
2. (fishing) fry
3. smallwood (wood too small to be used in carpentry, instead burned or used for charcoal)
4. (hunting) dust shot, rat shot, snake shot, mustard seed (very small lead shot)

• amenuiser
• menuiserie
• menuisier

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

menuise

1. inflection of menuiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “menuise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.