" minatory "

[Adjective]  | "mi*na*to*ry" | \ ˈmi-nə-ˌtȯr-ē \

1: having a menacing quality

Origin: 1532 ;

 Borrowed from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī "to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of" (verbal derivative of minae, plural only, "threats, menaces, portents of evil") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally "projecting points, overhang," noun derivative of the verbal base *men- see:n in ēminēre "to stick out, protrude," of uncertain origin;

  * Note : Ernout and Meillet (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine) point to a passage in Virgil's Aeneid (4, 88), where minae is taken to mean "projecting parts of a battlement" (pinnae) by the Virgilian commentator Servius ("Minae eminentiae murorum quas pinnas dicunt"). The meaning "threats" in this line is maintained, however, by the Oxford Latin Dictionary (s.v. minae 1). — The min- of minae (and ēminēre, where in any case vowel weakening removes the distinction) may be taken back to *men- if is regularly raised to in the environment m_nV, a position taken by M. Weiss (Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, 2nd edition, Ann Arbor, 2020, p. 148). If such a verb existed, it is evidently without a comparable base in other Indo-European languages. Within Latin, *men- has been compared to mentum "chin" (see: {mental:2|mental:2}) and mont-, mons "mountain" (see: {mount:1|mount:1}). See also {eminent|eminent}, {imminent|imminent}, and {prominent|prominent}. For another offshoot of minārī see: {demean:2|demean:2}.;

[Adjective]  | "minatory"