mirus

See also: Miruś

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Verb

mirus

1. conditional of miri

Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.rus]

Adjective

mīrus (feminine mīra, neuter mīrum, comparative mīrior, superlative mīrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. wonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculous
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.370:

     credite dicenti: mira, sed acta, loquor

     Believe what I'm saying: I tell of marvelous, yet (really) happened, things.

Usage notes

The comparative mīrior and superlative mīrissimus were not used in Classical Latin. Instead, the periphrastic expressions magis mīrus and maximē mīrus were used.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mīrus	mīra	mīrum		mīrī	mīrae	mīra
genitive	mīrī	mīrae	mīrī		mīrōrum	mīrārum	mīrōrum
dative	mīrō	mīrae	mīrō		mīrīs
accusative	mīrum	mīram	mīrum		mīrōs	mīrās	mīra
ablative	mīrō	mīrā	mīrō		mīrīs
vocative	mīre	mīra	mīrum		mīrī	mīrae	mīra

Related terms

• mīrābilis
• mīrābiliter
• mīrābundus
• mīrāculum
• mīrandus
• mīrāns
• mīrātor
• mīrātrīx
• mīrē
• mīrificē
• mīrificus
• mīriō
• mīror
• nimirum

Descendants

• → Italian: miro

References

• “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, 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
    
• “mīrus” on page 1,116/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Lithuanian

Participle

mirus

1. past adverbial padalyvis participle of mirti