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Latin
Etymology
From admīrārī, admīror (“to admire, wonder at”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
admīrābilis (neuter admīrābile, comparative admīrābilior, adverb admīrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- admirable, wonderful, worthy of admiration
- surprising, astonishing, amazing, rare, strange, producing wonder
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “admirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “admirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- admirabilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- admirabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- paradoxes; surprising things: admirabilia (= παράδοξα)