The corpus record — Latin

minium

minium · n

native cinnabar

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

mĭnĭum — Lewis & Short

mĭnĭum, ii, n. (apoc. form min, Verg. ap.

Quint. 8, 3, 28; Aus. Gram. 9) [Span.],

I native cinnabar: Hiberum, Prop. 2, 2, 21.—

II Red-lead, minium, Plin. 33, 7, 40, § 118; Verg. E. 10, 27; Suet. Calig. 18; id. Gram. 11; Vitr. 7, 8, 1.

In the wild

minio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.7.p4
minio Ovid, Amores 1.12.11
minio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.8.p1
minio Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.5.8.p1
minio Ovid, Tristia 1.1.7
minio Tibullus, Elegiae 2.1.55

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. minium (scan p. 428; entry #6876).

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