Where does “miniatyrbilde” come from?
miniatyrbilde (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål miniatyr, from Medieval Latin miniatura, from French miniature, from Italian miniatura, from Italian miniare, from Latin miniare, from Latin minium, from Latin -um.
miniatyrbilde (Norwegian Bokmål): a thumbnail
Ancestry of “miniatyrbilde”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | miniatyr | a miniature; miniature |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | miniatura | — |
| 3 | French | miniature | miniature; thumbnail |
| 4 | Italian | miniatura | miniature; thumbnail |
| 5 | Italian | miniare | to illuminate; to miniate |
| 6 | Latin | miniare | — |
| 7 | Latin | minium | native cinnabar; red lead, minium |
| 8 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |