minium

From Latin minium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪəm/

minium (usually uncountable, plural miniums)

1. (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
2. 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːnɪjum]

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

Borrowed from Latin minium.

• IPA^(key): /mi.njɔm/

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minium m (uncountable)

1. red lead

• “minium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• min

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.ni.um]

minium n (genitive miniī or minī); second declension

1. native cinnabar
2. red lead, minium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• miniō
• minius

• → English: minium, miniature
• → Ancient Greek: μίνιον (mínion)
• Italian: minio
• → Middle Dutch: minie
  • Dutch: menie
• Polish: minia
• Portuguese: Minho, mínio
• Spanish: Miño

• “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.