admirabilis

Latin

Etymology

From admīrārī, admīror (“to admire, wonder at”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ad.miːˈraː.bi.lis/, [äd̪miːˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.miˈra.bi.lis/, [äd̪miˈräːbilis]

Adjective

admīrābilis (neuter admīrābile, comparative admīrābilior, adverb admīrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. admirable, wonderful, worthy of admiration
2. surprising, astonishing, amazing, rare, strange, producing wonder

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	admīrābilis	admīrābile		admīrābilēs	admīrābilia
Genitive	admīrābilis			admīrābilium
Dative	admīrābilī			admīrābilibus
Accusative	admīrābilem	admīrābile		admīrābilēs admīrābilīs	admīrābilia
Ablative	admīrābilī			admīrābilibus
Vocative	admīrābilis	admīrābile		admīrābilēs	admīrābilia

Derived terms

• admīrābiliter
• admīrābilitās

 

Related terms

• admīrandus
• admīror
• admīrātiō
• admīrātor

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: admirable
• → English: admirable
• → French: admirable
• → Italian: ammirabile
• → Portuguese: admirável
• → Romanian: admirabil
• → Spanish: admirable

References

• “admirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “admirabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• admirabilis 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)
• admirabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • paradoxes; surprising things: admirabilia (= παράδοξα)