minium

From Latin minium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪəm/

minium (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion. [from 14th c.]
2. Red lead. [from 17th c.]
   • 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): /min.jɔm/

minium m (uncountable)

1. red lead

• “minium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• min

Iberian.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [ˈmɪ.ni.ʊ̃]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni.um/, [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
• Italian: minio
• 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, 1883–1887)
• minium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette