μικρότης
or σμικρ- (see. μικρός), ητος, ἡ, smallness. first in [[ 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 1, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1056b29; διὰ σμικρότητα ἀόρατα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 43a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of voice, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 422b30; ἀνέμων 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 1: _plural_, μεγέθη καὶ μ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.687e. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 meanness, pettiness, of rank, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.93, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1302b4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of matters, [[ [prev. author] “Rh.” 1393a9 ] Refs]; of language, triviality, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 43.1. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]