minium

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English

Etymology

From Latin minium.

Pronunciation

Noun

minium (usually uncountable, plural miniums)

  1. (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion.
  2. Red lead.
    • 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.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

minium n

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

Declension

Declension of minium (semisoft neuter foreign)
singular plural
nominative minium minia
genitive minia minií
dative miniu miniím
accusative minium minia
vocative minium minia
locative miniu miniích
instrumental miniem minii

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.njɔm/
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Noun

minium m (uncountable)

  1. red lead

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Iberian. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

minium n (genitive miniī or minī); second declension

  1. native cinnabar
  2. red lead, minium

Declension

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).

Derived terms

Descendants

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 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.
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