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From Latin minium.

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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.

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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

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French

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Borrowed from Latin minium.

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  • IPA(key): /mi.njɔm/
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minium m (uncountable)

  1. red lead

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Latin

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minium n (genitive miniī or minī); second declension

  1. native cinnabar
  2. red lead, minium

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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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  • 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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