Where does “minium” come from?

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

minium (Latin): native cinnabar; red lead, minium

Definitions

  1. native cinnabar; red lead, minium

Ancestry of “minium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
2Proto-Italic*-om
3Proto-Indo-European*-oHom

Words derived from “minium

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom
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