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miniature

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (manuscript illumination), from miniare (to illuminate), from Latin mini? (to colour red), from minium (red lead).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?m?n(?)?t??(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?m?n(i)?t???/, /?m?n(i)?t????/

Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)

  1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
  2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
  3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
  4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
  5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
  6. A musical composition which is short in duration.
  7. (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
  8. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
  9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
  10. A particular feature or trait.

Derived terms

  • miniaturist
  • mini-
  • mini

Translations

Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)

  1. Smaller than normal.

Derived terms

  • miniature poodle
  • miniaturism

Translations

Verb

miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)

  1. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.nja.ty?/

Noun

miniature f (plural miniatures)

  1. miniature
  2. (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)

Synonyms

  • (thumbnail): vignette, aperçu

Further reading

  • “miniature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

miniature f

  1. plural of miniatura

Anagrams

  • minuteria
  • ruminiate

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puny

English

Etymology

From Middle French puisné. See puisne.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pju?ni/
  • Rhymes: -u?ni

Adjective

puny (comparative punier, superlative puniest)

  1. Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective.
    • Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Translations

Noun

puny (plural punies)

  1. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  2. (obsolete) A younger person.
    • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
      who had rather others should make a ladder of his dead corpse to scale a city by it, than a bridge of him whilst alive for his punies to give him the go-by
  3. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
  4. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

Synonyms

  • (new pupil): fresher, freshman, new bug, novi (Tonbridge School), shadow (Westminster School)
  • (beginner): newb, rookie, tenderfoot; see also Thesaurus:beginner
  • (subordinate): junior, underling, vassal

See also

  • punny – relating to a pun

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Indo-European *pu?nos, *pu?nos, from *pew?-, *peu?- (prick, punch).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?pu?/

Noun

puny m (plural punys)

  1. fist

Related terms

  • punyal
  • punyeta

Further reading

  • “puny” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “puny” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “puny” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “puny” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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