# miniature
## English

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### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
* (South Asia) IPA: /ˈminiˌeːt͡ʃa(ɾ)/

### Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)
* Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
* A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
    There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324:The twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany are conceived as a miniature of the whole year, the character of each particular day answering to the character of a particular month.
* A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.
* The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
* An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
* A musical composition which is short in duration.
    Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
* (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
* (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
    Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
* Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
* A particular feature or trait.
** 1627, Philip Massinger, “The Great Duke of Florence”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, published 1845, act 5, scene 3, page 221:There's no miniature / In her fair face, but is a copious theme / Which would, discoursed at large of, make a volume.

#### Derived terms

* mini
* mini-
* miniature donkey
* miniature golf
* miniature scarlet fever
* miniature sheet
* miniaturist
* miniaturization, miniaturisation
* miniaturize, miniaturise

#### Translations

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### Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)
* Smaller than normal.
    I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.
** 2013 September 6, Alok Jha, “Miniature brains grown in lab”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 39:Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.

#### Derived terms

* in miniature
* miniature poodle
* miniaturism

#### Translations
### Verb

miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)
* (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
** 1755, John Shebbeare, An Answer to a Pamphlet, called A Second Letter to the People‎, London: M. Cooper, page 29:If it be ever so little removed, or seen thro’ the miniaturing End of the Perspective Glass, it either wholly escapes their Sight, or appears to them a mere Minutity.
** 1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett‎, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 2, Letter 67, p. ,101:The smile of the babe was in my eye, and in my heart. I saw miniatur’d forth, the features of the murdered Edward.
** c. 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131,
    Now what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into […]
** 1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 5, in Nova, New York: Doubleday:[…] a moon holds its gray glories miniatured in rock and dust.
** 2009, Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching‎, New York: Nan A. Talese, pages 98-99:Dad had had Lily’s Haiti photos developed, and […] among them was a sunset miniatured in purple […]

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura. Unrelated to minuscule.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.nja.tyʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

miniature f (plural miniatures)
* miniature
* (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)
    Synonyms: vignette, aperçu

#### Derived terms

* miniaturiser

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Noun

miniature f
* plural of miniatura

### Anagrams

* minuteria, riaumenti, ruminiate