minium
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minium (usually uncountable, plural miniums)
- (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
- Red lead. [from 17th c.]
- 1861, Robert H. Lamborn, A rudimentary treatise on the Metallurgy of Silver and Lead, page 43:
- The compounds formed by the combination of the peroxide of lead with the protoxide have received the general name of miniums, and are known in commerce as red lead.
- 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 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.
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red lead
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minium n
- red lead, minium (a bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb3O4, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics)
- Synonym: suřík
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minium m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “minium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [ˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [ˈmiːnium]
Noun edit
minium n (genitive miniī or minī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | minium | minia |
Genitive | miniī minī1 |
miniōrum |
Dative | miniō | miniīs |
Accusative | minium | minia |
Ablative | miniō | miniīs |
Vocative | minium | minia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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- English: minium, miniature
- Ancient Greek: μίνιον (mínion)
- Italian: minio
- → Middle Dutch: minie
- Dutch: menie
- Polish: minia
- Portuguese: Minho, mínio
- Spanish: Miño
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- minium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette