Where does “minium” come from?

minium (French) comes from Latin minium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

minium (French): red lead

Definitions

  1. red lead

Ancestry of “minium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinminiumnative cinnabar; red lead, minium
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
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