Where does “miniac” come from?
miniac (English) comes from English maniac, from French maniaque, from Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός, from Ancient Greek μανίᾱ, from Ancient Greek νόσος, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
miniac (English): A producer or collector of miniatures, being small-scale replicas of contemporary or historical objects, such as might be used in a dollhouse
Definitions
- A producer or collector of miniatures, being small-scale replicas of contemporary or historical objects, such as might be used in a dollhouse
Ancestry of “miniac”, step by step
miniac traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English maniac
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | maniac | An insane person, especially one who suffers from... |
| 2 | French | maniaque | maniacal; maniac |
| 3 | Latin | maniacus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μανιακός | causing insanity |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μανίᾱ | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | νόσος | sickness, disease, illness; plague; misery,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via English miniature
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | miniature | Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale; A... |
| 2 | Italian | miniatura | miniature; thumbnail |
| 3 | Italian | miniare | to illuminate; to miniate |
| 4 | Latin | miniare | — |
| 5 | Latin | minium | native cinnabar; red lead, minium |
| 6 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |