Mennige

German

Alternative forms

• Mennig m

Etymology

From Middle High German minig, minwe m, from Old High German minio m, from Proto-West Germanic *minnjō (“cinnabar, red lead”).

Noun

Mennige f (genitive Mennige, no plural)

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

Declension

Declension of Mennige [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mennige
genitive	einer	der	Mennige
dative	einer	der	Mennige
accusative	eine	die	Mennige

Derived terms

• mennigefarben

Further reading

• Blei(II,IV)-oxid on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Mennige” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Mennige” in Duden online
• “Mennige” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache