mirus
See also: Miruś
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Verb edit
mirus
- conditional of miri
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.rus/, [ˈmiːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.rus/, [ˈmiːrus]
Adjective edit
mīrus (feminine mīra, neuter mīrum, comparative mīrior, superlative mīrissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Usage notes edit
The comparative mīrior and superlative mīrissimus were not used in Classical Latin. Instead, the periphrastic expressions magis mīrus and maximē mīrus were used.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mīrus | mīra | mīrum | mīrī | mīrae | mīra | |
Genitive | mīrī | mīrae | mīrī | mīrōrum | mīrārum | mīrōrum | |
Dative | mīrō | mīrō | mīrīs | ||||
Accusative | mīrum | mīram | mīrum | mīrōs | mīrās | mīra | |
Ablative | mīrō | mīrā | mīrō | mīrīs | |||
Vocative | mīre | mīra | mīrum | mīrī | mīrae | mīra |
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References edit
- “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[1], 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
- no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
- “mīrus” on page 1,116/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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Participle edit
mirus
- past adverbial padalyvis participle of mirti