mira
Asturian edit
Verb edit
mira
- inflection of mirar:
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mira f (plural mires)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mira
- inflection of mirar:
Usage notes edit
- The imperative form mira can reduce to mi in colloquial speech when one or more clitic pronouns are attached to the end of the verb.
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Chavacano edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Spanish mirar (“to look”).
Verb edit
mirá
French edit
Verb edit
mira
- third-person singular past historic of mirer
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
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mira
- inflection of mirar:
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From mirare.
Noun edit
mira f (plural mire)
- aim
- sight
- Synonym: mirino
- (figurative) aim, goal, purpose, design, objective, purport
- Synonyms: scopo, obiettivo, intenzione
- (surveying) stadia, level staff
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
mira
- inflection of mirare:
- Mira, o Norma, a' tuoi ginocchi
Questi cari pargoletti.
Ah! pietà di lor ti tocchi
Se non hai di te pietà.- Look, o Norma, at your knees
These darling children.
Ah! May pity for them touch you
If you have no pity for yourself. - (Felice Romani, libretto to Vincenzo Bellini's, Norma, Act 2, Scene 3.)
- Look, o Norma, at your knees
Anagrams edit
Ladin edit
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mira f (plural mires)
Latin edit
Adjective edit
mīra
- inflection of mīrus:
References edit
- mira 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)
Latvian edit
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mira
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
From Italian mira or its Sicilian equivalent.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mira f (plural miri)
Papiamentu edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese mirar and Spanish mirar.
Verb edit
mira
- to see
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from a Semitic language.
Noun edit
mira f
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
mira f
- (astronomy, geodesy) reference point for azimuth measurements
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Italian mira (“aim; sight”).
Noun edit
mira f (plural miras)
- sight (device through which the person aiming looks at the intended target)
- marksmanship (ability to shoot accurately at a target)
- Synonym: pontaria
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected form of mirar.
Verb edit
mira
- inflection of mirar:
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
a mira (third-person singular present miră, past participle mirat) 1st conj.
- (reflexive, a se mira) to wonder
- (reflexive) to be astounded, amazed, surprised
- (transitive) to astound, amaze
- (regional, Transylvania) to see to
Conjugation edit
infinitive | a mira | ||||||
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gerund | mirând | ||||||
past participle | mirat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | mir | miri | miră | mirăm | mirați | miră | |
imperfect | miram | mirai | mira | miram | mirați | mirau | |
simple perfect | mirai | mirași | miră | mirarăm | mirarăți | mirară | |
pluperfect | mirasem | miraseși | mirase | miraserăm | miraserăți | miraseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să mir | să miri | să mire | să mirăm | să mirați | să mire | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | miră | mirați | |||||
negative | nu mira | nu mirați |
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
mira (Cyrillic spelling мира)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mira f (plural miras)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
mira
- inflection of mirar:
Further reading edit
- “mira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sranan Tongo edit
Etymology edit
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mira