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mirus
mirus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *smeiros, from Proto-Indo-European *sméy(h₂)ros (“laughing, smiling”), from *(s)meyh₂- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Cognate with 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”), smile.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.rus/, [ˈmiː.rʊs]
Adjective
mīrus m (feminine mīra, neuter mīrum, comparative mīrior, superlative mīrissimus); first/second declension
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mīrus | mīra | mīrum | mīrī | mīrae | mīra | |
| genitive | mīrī | mīrae | mīrī | mīrōrum | mīrārum | mīrōrum | |
| dative | mīrō | mīrō | mīrīs | ||||
| accusative | mīrum | mīram | mīrum | mīrōs | mīrās | mīra | |
| ablative | mīrō | mīrā | mīrō | mīrīs | |||
| vocative | mīre | mīra | mīrum | mīrī | mīrae | mīra | |
Related terms
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mīrus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 981.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
- no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
- “mīrus” on page 1,116/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)