different between minium vs milium

English

Etymology

From Latin minium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n??m/

Noun

minium (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
2. Red lead. [from 17th c.]
   • 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 29:

     [H]e was so overcome by suffering that his face, which had once been of oriental minium, now became like orpiment, and the hams of his lips turned into rancid lard.

Translations

Czech

Noun

minium n

1. red lead, minium (a bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics)

Synonyms

• su?ík

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nj?m/

Noun

minium m (uncountable)

1. red lead

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• min

Etymology

Iberian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.um/, [?m?ni???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.ni.um/, [?mi?nium]

Noun

minium n (genitive mini? or min?); second declension

1. native cinnabar
2. red lead, minium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• mini?
• minius

Descendants

• English: minium, miniature
• Ancient Greek: ?????? (mínion)
• Italian: minio
• ? Middle Dutch: minie
  • Dutch: menie
• Polish: minia
• Portuguese: Minho, mínio
• Spanish: Miño

References

• minium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• minium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li?m

Noun

milium (plural milia)

1. (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

Synonyms

• milk spot
• oil seed

Further reading

• Milium (disease) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *meljom, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek ?????? (melín?, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.li.um/, [?m?li???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.li.um/, [?mi?lium]

Noun

milium n (genitive mili? or mil?); second declension

1. millet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• miliaceus
• miliacus
• m?liginis

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of m?lle (“thousand”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi?.li.um/, [?mi?li???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.li.um/, [?mi?lium]

Numeral

m?lium

1. genitive plural of m?lle

Usage notes

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• milium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• milium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• milium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette