Etymology

subminiature

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Today it means: Compact or smaller than miniature. Full definition →

English miniature ← Italian miniatura ← Latin minium
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. LatinMinius
  7. Latinminium
  8. Italianminio
  9. Italianminiare
  10. Italianminiatura
  11. Englishminiature
  12. English todaysubminiature

From sub- + miniature.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.