admirabilis Latin · revision 7984

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ad.miːˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ad.miˈraː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admīrābilis''' (neuter admīrābile, comparative admīrābilior, adverb admīrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[admīror]] “to wonder at” with the suffix [[-bilis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The TLL notes it is rare outside Cicero, Valerius Maximus and Quintilian.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant astonishing, remarkable, and ''admīrābile est'' it is remarkable that, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant worthy of admiration, wonderful, as ''admīrābilis in dīcendō vir'' “a man admirable in speaking” and ''ō clēmentiam admīrābilem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it also meant contrary to common opinion, paradoxical, rendering Greek [[grc|παράδοξος|tr=parádoxos]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant wonderful, admirable.^(Stelten 1995) It was borrowed into French and Spanish ''admirable'' and Italian ''ammirabile'', and [[en|admirable]] came in the mid-15th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the admirable and the paradoxical.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''admirable'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Astonishing, remarkable.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Wonderful, [[m|en|admirable]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Paradoxical]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[admīrābilitās]]

+ * [[admīrābiliter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admīrandus]]

+ * [[admīrātiō]]

+ * [[admīrātor]]

+ * [[admīror]]

+ * [[mīrābilis]]

+ * [[en|admirable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}