The minot (French pronunciation: [mino]) is an old unit of dry volume, used in France prior to metrication.
The unit was equivalent to three French bushels (boisseaux), half a mine, and one quarter of a setier.
[1] The name minot derives from the larger unit, the mine, with an -ot diminutive suffixed.
The term mine in this case derives from the same Greek origin as the word hemisphere, and refers to half of the larger setier.
[2] Later on, there was also a minot de Paris[2] based on exactly one cubic French royal foot, which is equivalent to 34.277 litres.