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mirus

remaricable, astonishing

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Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Amphitruo 18 · 18.31/10k
Antoninus Geta 2 · 16.26/10k
De Testimionio Animae 3 · 13.42/10k
De Rerum Natura 55 · 11.29/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Naturalis Historia 361 · 9.11/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
de Bello Gothico 3 · 7.44/10k
Apocolocyntosis 2 · 7.38/10k

Densest 12 of 187 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mirus — de Vaan

mirus 'remaricable, astonishing' [adj. o/o] (Andr.+; usually predicative mxrum est) Derivatives: rmrari 'to be amazed' (PL+), rmraculus [adj.] 'freakish' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. mirus, p. 396]

2. mīrus — Lewis & Short

mīrus, a, um, adj.Sanscr. smi; v. miror,

I wonderful, marvellous, astonishing, extraordinary (class.): mirum et magnum facinus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 97: mirum me desiderium tenet urbis, Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 11: miris modis odisse aliquem, wonderfully, exceedingly, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 104; so, miris modis, adverbially, wonderfully, strangely, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 5; id. Men. 5, 7, 50; id. Rud. 3, 1, 1; id. Merc. 2, 1, 1: mirum in modum conversae sunt hominum mentes, astonishingly, surprisingly, Caes. B. G. 1, 41: sibi mirum videri, quid in suā Galliā populo Romano negotii esset, id. ib. 1, 34.—With a foll. si: minime mirum, si ista res, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 55: quid mirum in senibus, si infirmi sunt aliquando? id. Sen. 11, 35: mirum quam or quantum, it is wonderful how, how very, how much, i. e. extraordinarily, exceedingly: mirum quam inimicus ibat, ut ego objurgarem, Cic. Att. 15, 40: id, mirum quantum profuit ad concordiam civitatis, Liv. 2, 1; so, mirum ut: mirum dictu, ut sit omnis Sarmatarum virtus velut extra ipsos, Tac. H. 1, 79: mirum ni or nisi, it would be wonderful, I should wonder, I am very much mistaken, if not, i. e. most probably, undoubtedly, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 43: mira sunt, nisi invitavit sese in cena plusculum, id. Am. 1, 1, 127: mira sunt ni Pseudulust, id. Ps. 4, 7, 118; id. Trin. 4, 2, 19 Brix ad loc.: socer, et medicus me insanire aiebant: quid sit, mira sunt, I wonder what it means, it is incomprehensible to me, id. Men. 5, 7, 56: mirum ni or quin, undoubtedly, certainly: quid ploras pater? Mirum ni cantem: condemnatus sum, I wonder I don't sing, of course I ought to sing, Naev. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278: mirum, quin ab avo ejus, aut proavo acciperem, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 125: mirum quin te advorsus dicat, id. Am. 2, 2, 118: quid mirum? what wonder? Ov. A. A. 3, 110.—Comp., only ante-class.: mirior inquam tibi videor, Titin. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll.: quid hoc mirius? Varr. ap. Non. 135, 29.—Subst.: mīra, ōrum, n., wonders, marvels: nimia mira memoras, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 57: septem mira, the seven wonders of the world, Lact. 3, 24, 1.—Hence, adv.: mīrē, wonderfully, marvellously, strangely, uncommonly, exceedingly (class.): puero municipia mire favent, Cic. Att. 16, 11, 6: factus canis, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 102: laudare, id. 29, 3, 12, § 54: gratus, id. 29, 1, 6, § 13: afficere, Juv. 14, 24.—With a noun: mire opifex, Pers. 6, 3: mire quam illius loci cogitatio delectat, extraordinarily, exceedingly, Cic. Att. 1, 11, 3 (al. mire quantum).

3. mirus — Walde–Hofmann

mirus, -z, -um „wunderbar, erstaunlich, sonderbar^ (seit Liv. Andr, [per- seit Plaut.], mirimodis „auf erstaunliche Art“ Pit. [nach multimodis, Leumann -Stolz® 251]; vgl. auch nimirum), miror (alat. auch miró, De verb. dep. 17 f), -Stus sum, -üri „wundere mich, bewundere“ (seit Plt., rom. [meist in der Bed. „schauen“], ebenso msrübilis „wunderbar, bewundernswert" seit Plt. [rom. *merdbilia „Wunder“; permträbilis … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mirus, p. 1000]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mirus (scan p. 396; entry #1057).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mirus (scan p. 430; entry #6913).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mirus (scan pp. 1000-1002; entry #1774). Root candidates: *smei-, *mei-, *smi-.

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