mirate
See also: mírate
English edit
Etymology edit
Related to miration. Ultimately from Latin mīror (“marvel at”).
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Verb edit
mirate (third-person singular simple present mirates, present participle mirating, simple past and past participle mirated)
- (Southern US, Midland US, uncommon) To marvel at. [since the late 1800s]
- 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."
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- see list in admire
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mirate
- present adverbial passive participle of miri
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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mirate
Participle edit
mirate f pl
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mirate
- inflection of mirare:
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Latin edit
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mīrāte
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Verb edit
mirate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mirar combined with te