miraculum

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From mīror (“I wonder or marvel at”) +‎ -culum (derivative suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /miːˈraː.ku.lum/, [miːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈra.ku.lum/, [miˈräːkulum]

Noun[edit]

mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension

wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
Synonyms: portentum, mōnstrum, ostentum, prōdigium, mīrum
wonderfulness, marvellousness.

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mīrāculum	mīrācula
Genitive	mīrāculī	mīrāculōrum
Dative	mīrāculō	mīrāculīs
Accusative	mīrāculum	mīrācula
Ablative	mīrāculō	mīrāculīs
Vocative	mīrāculum	mīrācula

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: mirachi, mirache
- Romanian: mirac
Ibero-Romance: (some or all semi-learned)
- Asturian: milagru
- Old Galician-Portuguese: miragre
  - Galician: milagre
  - Portuguese: milagre
- Old Spanish: milagro, miraglo
  - Spanish: milagro
    - → Chavacano: milagro
    - → English: milagro
    - → Karao: milagro
Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: mrekulli
Learned borrowings:
- → Catalan: miracle
- → Friulian: meracul
- → Italian: miracolo
  - → Romanian: miracol
- → Neapolitan: miraculo
- → Occitan: miracle
- → Old French: miracle
  - French: miracle
    - → Esperanto: miraklo
  - → Danish: mirakel
  - → English: miracle
  - → Middle Dutch: mirakele
    - Dutch: mirakel
- → Portuguese: miráculo
- → Sicilian: miràculu
- → Spanish: miráculo

References[edit]

“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.

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