The corpus record — Latin

mirificus

mirificus · adj

causing wonder

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
De Bello Africo 5 · 3.84/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 6 · 3.27/10k
Letters to Atticus 38 · 3.09/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 19 · 2.39/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 27 · 2.32/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mīrĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

mīrĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.mirus-facio,

I causing wonder or admiration, wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, singular, strange (class.).

I Of persons: voramus litteras cum homine mirifico ... Dionysio, Cic. Att. 4, 11, 1: homo in doctrinis mirificus, Gell. 6, 15, 2.—

II Of things: turris mirificis operibus exstructa, Caes. B. C. 3, 112: pugnae, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1: convicium, id. ib. 1, 14, 5: voluptas, id. Fam. 3, 11, 3: studium, id. ib. 14, 3, 3: mirificas gratias agere, id. Att. 14, 13, 5: sed te mirificam in latebram conjecisti, id. Div. 2, 20, 47.—Sup., in two forms: mirificissimum facinus, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 32: mirificentissima potentia, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 42 init.—Hence, adv.: mīrĭfĭcē, wonderfully, marvellously, extraordinarily, exceedingly (class.): delectari, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4: dolere, id. Att. 2, 19, 1: diligere, id. N. D. 1, 21, 58: laudare, id. Fam. 3, 11, 3: prodesse, Plin. 31, 8, 44, § 97.

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