miniature

English Online Dictionary. What means miniature‎? What does miniature mean?

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/

Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)

1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
6. A musical composition which is short in duration.

7. (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
8. (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.

9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
10. A particular feature or trait.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)

1. Smaller than normal.

Derived terms

• in miniature
• miniature poodle
• miniaturism

Translations

Verb

miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)

1. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
   • c. 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131,^[4]

     Now what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into […]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura. Unrelated to minuscule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nja.tyʁ/

Noun

miniature f (plural miniatures)

1. miniature
2. (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)

   Synonyms: vignette, aperçu

Derived terms

• miniaturiser

Further reading

• “miniature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

miniature f

1. plural of miniatura

Anagrams

• minuteria, riaumenti, ruminiate