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minium
English
Etymology
From Latin minium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?n??m/
Noun
minium (uncountable)
- (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
- 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.
- 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 29:
Translations
Czech
Noun
minium n
- 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)
- 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
- native cinnabar
- 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
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minaceous
English
Adjective
minaceous (not comparable)
- of the colour of minium
Anagrams
- acuminose, mniaceous
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