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, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 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.

minium n

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

• suřík

Borrowed from Latin minium.

• IPA^(key): /mi.njɔm/

minium m (uncountable)

1. red lead

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

• min

Iberian.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [ˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [ˈmiːnium]

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