miragem

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Etymology

Borrowed from French mirage (“mirage”). By surface analysis, mirar (“to look”) +‎ -agem.

Pronunciation

Noun

miragem f (plural miragens)

  1. mirage (an optical phenomenon)
    Synonym: espelhismo
    Hyponym: Fata Morgana
    • 1871, José de Alencar, “Mario” (chapter XIV), in O Tronco do Ipê, volume 1, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, pages 162–163:
      Mas á pouco e pouco, Mario foi se familiarisando com essas illusões do ermo, verdadeiras miragens da floresta: com a differença que as miragens dos desertos da Arabia são produzidas pela luz, as miragens de nossas mattas virgens são o effeito da sombra nas horas mais esplendidas deste clima brilhante.
      But bit by bit, Mario began to familiarize with these wilderness's illusions, trully mirages of the forest: with the difference that the Arabian deserts' mirages are created by light, our virgin forests' mirages are result of the shadow in the most explendid times of this bright climate.
  2. (figurative, literary) mirage (illusion)
    Synonym: ilusão
    • 1801, Almeida Garrett, A batalha d'Ourique e a sciencia arabico-academica, 2nd edition, Lisbon: Imprensa nacional, page 20:
      Desçamos já aos fins do seculo XVIII, quando a incredulidade corria como lava ardente pela face da Europa, e devorava as crenças mais sanctas e legitimas em milhares de corações. Vacilou acaso por isso a critica dos homens probos e pios nos seus principios de severidade? No meio de tantas ruinas quizeram elles salvar com os restos do edificio a sua falsa miragem?
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