The corpus record — Latin

minio1

to color with red-lead

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Where it lives

Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. mĭnĭo — Lewis & Short

mĭnĭo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. minium, to color with red-lead or cinnabar, to paint red: Jovem, Plin. 33, 7, 38, § 112; 35, 12, 45, § 157.—Hence, mĭnĭātus, a, um, P. a.

I Colored with red-lead or cinnabar, colored red, red: quae quidem, vereor, ne miniata cerula tua pluribus locis notandae sint, with your red-lead pencil, Cic. Att. 15, 14, 4; 16, 11, 1.—

II Of the color of cinnabar, cinnabar-red, of the parrot: avis torque miniato in cervicem distincta, Plin. 10, 42, 58, § 117.

2. Mĭnĭo — Lewis & Short

Mĭnĭo, ōnis, m.

I A small river in Etruria, now Mignone: Minionis in arvis, Verg. A. 10, 183; Rutil. 1, 279.—

II A town on the river Minio, Mela, 2, 4, 9.

Where it came from

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