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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

Etymology

See minion.

Noun

minum (plural minums)

1. (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
2. (music, obsolete) A minim.

Anagrams

• mu'min, nummi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay minum, Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Malay minum, Proto-Malayic *inum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Verb

minum

1. to drink

Malay

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, C.E. 684. From Proto-Malayic *inum (compare Indonesian minum), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inum (compare Cebuano inom, Hawaiian inu, Tagalog inom).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /minom/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /min?m/
• Rhymes: -inom, -nom, -om

Verb

minum (used in the form meminum)

1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)

Derived terms

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?.num/

Pronoun

m?num

1. inflection of m?n:
   1. masculine/neuter dative singular
   2. masculine/feminine/neuter dative plural

Rejang

Romanization

minum

1. Romanization of ??????