admirabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mey-der.

Proto-Indo-European *sméyros

Proto-Italic *smeiros

Latin mīrus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -or

Latin mīror

Latin admīrārī, admīror

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin admīrābilis

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ad.miːˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ad.miˈraː.bi.lis]

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.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	admīrābilis	admīrābile		admīrābilēs	admīrābilia
genitive	admīrābilis			admīrābilium
dative	admīrābilī			admīrābilibus
accusative	admīrābilem	admīrābile		admīrābilīs admīrābilēs	admīrābilia
ablative	admīrābilī			admīrābilibus
vocative	admīrābilis	admīrābile		admīrābilēs	admīrābilia

Derived terms

• admīrābilitās
• admīrābiliter

Related terms

• admīrandus
• admīrātiō
• admīrātor
• admīror

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, 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)