mirobolant
French
Etymology
From myrobolan (“myrobalan”), from Latin myrobalanum, from Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος (murobálanos). The fruit's name is related to mirer (“to stare intensely”) or mirum (“wonder”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mirobolant (feminine mirobolante, masculine plural mirobolants, feminine plural mirobolantes)
- great, extraordinary, incredible
- L’État a dépensé des sommes mirobolantes sur ce projet.
- The State spent an extraordinary amount of funds on this project.
- 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, “IX”, in À rebours, page 129:
- Son ennui devint sans borne ; la joie de posséder de mirobolantes floraisons était tarie ; il était déjà blasé sur leur contexture et sur leurs nuances ; […]
- His boredom soon had no limits; the joy of possessing stunning blossoms had dried up; their hues and their contexture had become distasteful to him; […]
- extremely unrealizable, infeasible (too magnificent or beautiful to be practicable)
- Le projet fut tout à fait mirobolant.
- The project was entirely beyond feasibility.
Descendants
- → Italian: mirabolante
- → Portuguese: mirabolante
- → Romanian: mirobolant
Noun
mirobolant m (plural mirobolants)
Further reading
- “mirobolant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowing from French mirobolant.
Adjective
mirobolant m or n (feminine singular mirobolantă, masculine plural mirobolanți, feminine and neuter plural mirobolante)
Declension
Declension of mirobolant
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | mirobolant | mirobolantă | mirobolanți | mirobolante | ||
definite | mirobolantul | mirobolanta | mirobolanții | mirobolantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | mirobolant | mirobolante | mirobolanți | mirobolante | ||
definite | mirobolantului | mirobolantei | mirobolanților | mirobolantelor |
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