mirate

English

Etymology

Related to miration. Ultimately from Latin mīror (“marvel at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.ɹeɪt/, /maɪˈɹeɪt/

Verb

mirate (third-person singular simple present mirates, present participle mirating, simple past and past participle mirated)

1. (Southern US, Midland US, uncommon) To marvel at.
   • 1893, M.E.M. Davis, “Judy's Mardi Gras”, in Wide Awake:

     With Bud in her arms and Babe at her heels, she rushed from one part of the court to another, laughing boisterously at Paulo's monkey pranks, and "mirating" over Francesca's tawdry finery.

   • 1960, “My Affair with a Weekly”, in The North Carolina Miscellany, published 2012, →ISBN, page 209:

     I should have sensed the waves of embarrassment she was radiating. But I didn't. I went right on “mirating” till I finally got around to saying they were “lovely.” Well, that was all my wife could take. “You've said enough,” she remarked, drily.

   • 1999, Reynolds Price, A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin, →ISBN, page 312:

     That paper-doll mother was still mirating at her own flesh and blood having lice. Rosacoke smiled and thought, "That is the one funny thing since Heywood Betts and his Honolulu shirt."

Related terms

• see list in admire

Anagrams

• AIRMET, Martie, imaret, mariet, matier

Esperanto

Adverb

mirate

1. present adverbial passive participle of miri

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

mirate

1. feminine plural of mirato

Participle

mirate f pl

1. feminine plural of mirato

Etymology 2

Verb

mirate

1. inflection of mirare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• -metria, -termia, merita, remati, rimate, tremai

Latin

Verb

mīrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of mīrō

Spanish

Verb

mirate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mirar combined with te