minium Latin · revision 3938

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=Furius Bibaculus|origins=xib}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmɪ.ni.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmiː.ni.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''minium''' ''n'' (genitive miniī or minī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably [[bor|xib|-]], a word from Spain.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Wiktionary connects it with the name of the river Minius in Spain, and Isidore says the pigment gave its name to a river there.^(Wiktionary)^(Isidore) Virgil quoted by Quintilian has a cut form [[m|la|min]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Furius Bibaculus (1st century BC).^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a bright red pigment, properly native cinnabar, sulphide of mercury, as Propertius' ''Hiberum minium'', “Spanish cinnabar”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was also red lead, as in Pliny and Vitruvius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Virgil's Pan is red with minium, and Tibullus' farmer painted with it.^(Georges 1913) Isidore says the Greeks first found it at Ephesus, but Spain had more than any other region.^(Isidore) English ''minium'' is a borrowing.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – Furius Bibaculus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil describes Pan red with minium.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius speaks of Spanish cinnabar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder writes of red lead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Cinnabar]]; vermilion.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Red lead, [[m|en|minium]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[mineus]]

+ * [[miniāceus]]

+ * [[miniārius]]

+ * [[miniō]]

+ * [[minius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|minium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}