miniature Copy link • miniature: perh. minuta tabella s. pictura. To be a distinguished m.-painter, *minuto quodam subtilique picturae genere excellere: a m. painted on a gem or ivory, *imago in gemma vel ebore picta: he painted only m.s, *homines pinxit nec eos nisi tabellis minimis. (Pictura minor [R. and A.] in Plin. 35, 10, 37 § 112, denotes painting of inferior subjects; "genre" painting.) Phr.: a world in m., *quasi minutus quidam mundus.