mirabilis
See also: Mirabilis
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
mirabilis (plural mirabilises)
- (botany) Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
Anagrams
- bisimilar
Latin
Etymology
From mīror (“to marvel at”) + -bilis (“-able”), from mīrus (“wonderful”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miːˈraː.bi.lis/, [miːˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈra.bi.lis/, [miˈräːbilis]
Adjective
mīrābilis (neuter mīrābile, adverb mīrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- wonderful, marvellous, astonishing, extraordinary, remarkable, amazing
- glorious
- miraculous
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mīrābilis | mīrābile | mīrābilēs | mīrābilia | |
| Genitive | mīrābilis | mīrābilium | |||
| Dative | mīrābilī | mīrābilibus | |||
| Accusative | mīrābilem | mīrābile | mīrābilēs mīrābilīs | mīrābilia | |
| Ablative | mīrābilī | mīrābilibus | |||
| Vocative | mīrābilis | mīrābile | mīrābilēs | mīrābilia | |
Derived terms
- mīrābiliārius
- mīrābilitās
Related terms
- mīrāculum
- miror
Descendants
- Asturian: maraviya
- Bourguignon: marvoille
- Catalan: meravella
- English: marvel, mirable
- French: merveille
- Galician: marabilla
- Italian: meraviglia, mirabile
- Norman: mervêle
- Portuguese: maravilha
- Spanish: maravilla
- Translingual: Mirabilis
- Walloon: marvoye
References
- “mirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mirabilis 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)
- mirabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette