"a small particular or detail, a trivial fact," 1751, usually in plural minutiae, from Latin minutia "smallness" (plural minutiae, in Late Latin "trifles"), from minutus "small" (from PIE root *mei- (2) "small").
he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code
minus
minuscule
minute
minuteman
minutes
minutia
minx
Miocene
miosis
mir
mirabile dictu