miraculum
Latin
Etymology
From mīror (“I wonder or marvel at”) + -culum (derivative suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miːˈraː.ku.lum/, [miːˈraː.kʊ.ɫũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈra.ku.lum/, [miˈraː.ku.lum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension
- wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
- wonderfulness, marvellousness.
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
| Genitive | mīrāculī | mīrāculōrum |
| Dative | mīrāculō | mīrāculīs |
| Accusative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
| Ablative | mīrāculō | mīrāculīs |
| Vocative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
Derived terms
- mīrāculō
Related terms
- mīrābiliārius
- mīrābilis
- mīrābilitās
- mīrābiliter
- mīrābundus
- mīrācula
- mīrandus
- mīrātiō
- mīrātor
- mīrātrīx
- mīrē
- mīrificē
- mīrificentia
- mīrificō
- mīrificus
- mīrimodīs
- mīriō
- mīrō
- mīror
- mīrus
Descendants
- Albanian: mrekulli
- Asturian: milagru
- Catalan: miracle, mirall
- Danish: mirakel
- Dutch: mirakel
- English: miracle
- Esperanto: miraklo
- French: miracle
- Friulian: meracul
- Galician: milagre
- Italian: miracolo
- Neapolitan: miraculo
- Occitan: miracle, miralh
- Old French: mirail, miracle
- Old Portuguese: miragre
- Portuguese: milagre, miráculo
- Romanian: miracol
- Spanish: milagro, 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