miniature
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin miniumder.
Italian minio
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Italian -are
Italian miniare
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Italian -tura
Italian miniaturabor.
English miniature
Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead, minium”). Not related to minimum, minor or min (which are all from a different root, *mi-n-), though the sense development may have been influenced by association with them or sound symbolism.
Inflected forms:
form: miniatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more miniature
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miniature
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: miniatures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miniaturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miniatured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miniatured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
pos: noun
gloss: A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
pos: noun
examples: There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
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.
gloss: A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
pos: noun
examples: The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.
gloss: The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
pos: noun
gloss: An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
pos: noun
gloss: A musical composition which is short in duration.
pos: noun
examples: Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
gloss: A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
pos: noun
gloss: A token in a game representing a unit or character.
pos: noun
examples: Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
gloss: Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular feature or trait.
pos: noun
examples: There's no miniature / In her fair face, but is a copious theme / Which would, discoursed at large of, make a volume.
gloss: Smaller than normal.
pos: adj
examples: I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.
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.
gloss: To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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 […]
[…] a moon holds its gray glories miniatured in rock and dust.
Dad had had Lily’s Haiti photos developed, and […] among them was a sunset miniatured in purple […]
Derived words: eye miniature
in miniature
mini-
mini
miniaturism
miniaturist
miniaturization
miniaturisation
miniaturize
miniaturise
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