admirabiliter Latin · revision 9846

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la mīror}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ad.miː.raːˈbɪ.lɪ.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ad.mi.raˈbiː.li.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admīrābiliter''' (comparative admīrābilius, superlative admīrābilissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|admīrābilis|-ter|t1=admirable, wonderful]], an adverb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) ⟨admīror⟩ is from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|mīror|t=to wonder at]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant in a wonderful manner, admirably, as in Cicero's ''De natura deorum'' and letters, and so as to cause surprise, strangely, paradoxically, as in Cicero, and Quintilian also uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|admirably|alt=Admirably]], wonderfully.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Strangely, [[m|en|paradoxically]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admīrābilis]]

+ * [[admīrābilitās]]

+ * [[admīrandus]]

+ * [[admīrātiō]]

+ * [[admīrātor]]

+ * [[admīror]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}