miniature

• adj.ミニチュア、小規模
• n. ミニチュア; ミニチュア絵画; ミニチュア絵画技法
• vt.のミニチュアである

イタリア語のminiatura、小さなイラスト、ヴィネット、ラテン語のminiare、赤く塗る、minium、赤鉛から。朱色に似たローマ時代の赤い絵の具で、古くは写本、ひいては細密画や細密画などの挿絵に用いられた。この語から、接頭辞 mini- （小さい、短い）が来ている。

イタリア語のminiatura、小さなイラスト、ヴィネット、ラテン語のminiare、赤く塗る、minium、赤い鉛から。朱色に似たローマ時代の赤い絵の具で、古くは写本、ひいては細密画や細密画などの挿絵に用いられた。また、この単語から、一般的な接頭辞 mini- （小さい、短い）が来ている。

miniature

miniature: [16] ‘Smallness’ is a purely secondary semantic development as far as miniature is concerned, inspired by its accidental similarity to the min- element of words like minimum and minute. It in fact comes ultimately from Latin minium ‘red lead’. Red lead was used in ancient and medieval times for making a sort of red ink with which manuscripts were decorated, and so the derived medieval Latin verb miniāre was coined for ‘illuminate a manuscript’.

Italian took this over as miniare, and derived miniatura ‘painting, illustrating’ from it. It referred particularly to the small paintings in manuscripts, and when English borrowed it as miniature it was soon broadened out to any ‘small image’. Association with minute, etc led by the early 18th century to its adjectival use for ‘small’.

miniature (n.)

1580s, "a reduced image," from Italian miniatura "manuscript illumination or small picture," from past participle of miniare "to illuminate a manuscript," from Latin miniare "to paint red," from minium "red lead," used in ancient times to make red ink, a word said to be of Iberian origin. Sense development is because pictures in medieval manuscripts were small, but no doubt there was influence as well from the similar-sounding Latin words that express smallness: minor, minimus, minutus, etc.

miniature (adj.)

"small," 1714, from minature (n.). Of dog breeds, from 1889. Of golf, from 1893.

1. He activated the door with the miniature sonic transmitter.

彼はマイクロ音波送信機でドアを開けた。

2.His home in Bexley is tucked away in a miniature forest.

彼はベックスリーの住宅の中に小さな森の中に位置している。

3.If it can be done full-size，I can do it in miniature .

原物と同じ大きさのものを作ることができれば、私は小さくすることができます。

4.a rare breed of miniature horses

珍しいポニー

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5.He 's giving a party in miniature on his birthday.

彼の誕生日に小さなパーティーが開かれる。