miraculum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension

1. wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
2. wonderfulness, marvellousness.

Declension

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

• mīrāculō

Related terms

• mīrābiliārius
• mīrābilis
• mīrābilitās
• mīrābiliter
• mīrābundus
• mīrācula
• mīrandus
• mīrātiō
• mīrātor
• mīrātrīx
• mīrē
• mīrificē
• mīrificentia
• mīrificō
• mīrificus
• mīrimodīs
• mīriō
• mīrō
• mīror
• mīrus

 

Descendants

• Albanian: mrekulli
• Asturian: milagru
• Catalan: miracle, mirall
• Danish: mirakel
• Dutch: mirakel
• English: miracle
• Esperanto: miraklo
• French: miracle

• Friulian: meracul
• Galician: milagre
• Italian: miracolo
• Neapolitan: miraculo
• Occitan: miracle, miralh
• Old French: mirail, miracle
• Old Galician-Portuguese: miragre
• Portuguese: milagre, miráculo
• Romanian: miracol
• Spanish: milagro, miráculo

References

• “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.