miniature

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Much smaller than the usual size.

   She collects miniature furniture for her doll's house.

2. 2
   noun

   A very small copy or model of something.

   There was a miniature of a sailing ship inside a glass bottle.

3. 3
   noun

   A small, very detailed painting, especially a portrait.

   The museum displayed a delicate miniature of the young queen.

Etymology tree Latin miniumder. Italian minio Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ 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”).

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