mirifice Latin · revision 33616

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *sméi-ro-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mīrificē''' (adverb)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mīrificus|-ē|t1=wonderful]].^(OLD 2012) [[m|la|mīrificus]] is a compound of [[m|la|mīrus|t=wonderful]] and [[m|la|faciō|t=to make]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mīrus]] to [[itc-pro|*smeiro-]] and [[ine-pro|*sméi-ro-|t=laughter]], with the adjective probably back-formed from the older neuter ⟨mīrum⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and Köbler record the adverb from Cato.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in an amazing manner or to an amazing degree, remarkably,^(OLD 2012) usually with verbs of feeling or speaking: Cicero has ''mirifice delectari'', to be wonderfully delighted, ''mirifice dolere'' and ''mirifice laudare''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The TLL finds it often in Cicero's letters and, among the poets, only in the Atellan farces of Pomponius and in Catullus, who has someone setting out the charges against Vatinius ''mirifice'', splendidly.^(TLL) Pliny the Elder uses it of things that help remarkably.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, often in his letters, of being wonderfully delighted or pained.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a remedy that helps remarkably.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|wonderfully|alt=Wonderfully]], marvellously, in an amazing manner.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ # Remarkably, exceedingly, to an extraordinary degree.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mīrificus]]

+ * [[mīrus]]

+ * [[mīror]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}