miraculum

Latin

Etymology

From mīror (“I wonder or marvel at”) +‎ -culum (derivative suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /miːˈraː.ku.lum/, [miːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈra.ku.lum/, [miˈräːkulum]

Noun

mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension

wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
Synonyms: portentum, mōnstrum, ostentum, prōdigium, mīrum
wonderfulness, marvellousness.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mīrāculum	mīrācula
Genitive	mīrāculī	mīrāculōrum
Dative	mīrāculō	mīrāculīs
Accusative	mīrāculum	mīrācula
Ablative	mīrāculō	mīrāculīs
Vocative	mīrāculum	mīrācula

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: mirachi, mirache
- Romanian: mirac
Ibero-Romance: (some or all semi-learned)
- Asturian: milagru
- Old Galician-Portuguese: miragre
  - Galician: milagre
  - Portuguese: milagre
- Old Spanish: milagro, miraglo
  - Spanish: milagro
    - → Chavacano: milagro
    - → English: milagro
    - → Karao: milagro
Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: mrekulli
Learned borrowings:
- → Catalan: miracle
- → Friulian: meracul
- → Italian: miracolo
  - → Romanian: miracol
- → Neapolitan: miraculo
- → Occitan: miracle
- → Old French: miracle
  - French: miracle
    - → Esperanto: miraklo
  - → Danish: mirakel
  - → English: miracle
  - → Middle Dutch: mirakele
    - Dutch: mirakel
- → Portuguese: miráculo
- → Sicilian: miràculu
- → Spanish: miráculo

References

“miraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“miraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
miraculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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