mire Latin · revision 32799

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *sméi-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmiː.reː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmiː.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mīrē''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mīrus|-ē|t1=wonderful]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mīrus]] to [[itc-pro|*smeiro-]] and [[ine-pro|*sméi-ro-|t=laughter]]: the meaning is hard to reach from “laughing”, but Vine solves this by taking the noun-like [[m|la|mīrum]] as the oldest form, an old collective “laughter”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Conte quotes it first from Terence,^(Conte 2010) who has a son fashioned wonderfully to his father's mind.^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a remarkable way or to a remarkable degree, amazingly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Cicero has weeping wonderfully pitiable and Livy something extremely welcome to the king.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) The phrase ''mīrē quam'' is “it is amazing how”: Cicero writes that it is amazing how not only the use but even the thought of a place delights him.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of pitiable weeping and ''mīrē quam''.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of something very welcome.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|wondrously|alt=Wondrously]], amazingly, remarkably; exceedingly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''mīrē quam'', it is amazing how, wonderfully.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mirus|alt=mīrus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}