mirus

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See also: Miruś

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Verb

mirus

  1. conditional of miri

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *smeiros, from Proto-Indo-European *sméyros (“laughing, smiling”), from *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्मेर (sméra), Swedish smila (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”), Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian (“to smile”), English smile.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mīrus (feminine mīra, neuter mīrum, comparative mīrior, superlative mīrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculous
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.370:
      credite dicenti: mira, sed acta, loquor
      Believe what I'm saying: I tell of marvelous, yet (really) happened, things.

Usage notes

The comparative mīrior and superlative mīrissimus were not used in Classical Latin. Instead, the periphrastic expressions magis mīrus and maximē mīrus were used.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative mīrus mīra mīrum mīrī mīrae mīra
genitive mīrī mīrae mīrī mīrōrum mīrārum mīrōrum
dative mīrō mīrae mīrō mīrīs
accusative mīrum mīram mīrum mīrōs mīrās mīra
ablative mīrō mīrā mīrō mīrīs
vocative mīre mīra mīrum mīrī mīrae mīra

References

  • “mīrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mīrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 981.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
    • there is nothing strange in that: neque id mirum est or videri debet
  • “mīrus” on page 1,116/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Lithuanian

Participle

mirus

  1. past adverbial padalyvis participle of mirti
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