miraculum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mīrāculum. Doublet of milagro and miracle.
Noun
[edit]miraculum
- (rare, nonstandard) A miracle.
- 1869, Benjamin Place [pseudonym; Edward Thring], chapter VI, in Thoughts on Life-Science, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 73–74:
- [W]hat is there wonderful in these ever-present spirit-agencies and intelligent wills, whilst working under God every material force, changing at any moment whether perceptibly or imperceptibly the direction of the material forces they wield; what miraculum would there be if every drop of rain is guided or shot through air by a living power?
- 1881, Warren J[udson] Brier, A Soldier of Fortune: A Modern Comedy-Drama in Five Acts. […] (The Star Drama), Chicago, Ill.: T[homas] S[tewart] Denison, →OCLC, act III, scene i, page 30:
- It’s a miraculum she warn’t tored all into little pieces no bigger dan a wash tub.
- 2001 October, Bronwyn Cleland, “Deux Ex Machina”, in Room 14 at 8 O’Clock: An Anthology of Poetry & Short Stories (The Richmond Writers’ Circle Anthology 2001), Richmond, London: Richmond Writers’ Circle, →ISBN, page 40:
- She had no time for the virtues of patience and we would hear the familiar sigh pitched to perfection and ‘All we need, all we want is a miraculum, just one small one.’ As the convoluted talk of illusory deities and miracles spiralled, we elder children sometimes deviated from my mother’s doctrine by demanding a straight answer as to how she saw her miracle manifesting.
- 2020, Stanisław Rosik, “The space of the turning point in the context of its neighbours: Pomeranian communities within the circle of the pagan ‘international’”, in Stanisław Rosik, editor, Europe Reaches the Baltic: Poland and Pomerania in the Shaping of European Civilization (10th–12th Centuries) (Scripta Historica Europaea; 6), Wrocław: University of Wrocław, →ISBN, section 3 (Pomerania – Poland – Europe. In search of their own paths), subsection II (Pomerania in the zone of Polish expansion in the age of Bolesław III the Wrymouth. Conquest and Christianization), page 330:
- This theological interpretation is meaningfully illustrated with a miraculum, which according to Ebo (III, 1) happened in Güzkow. An enormous swarm of terrifying flies flew out of a pagan temple destroyed during Otto’s missions, embodying the residing evil forces. Chased away with prayers and signs of cross they ultimately flew to Rugia.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mīror (“I wonder or marvel at”) + -culum (derivative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /miːˈraː.ku.lum/, [miːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈra.ku.lum/, [miˈräːkulum]
Noun
[edit]mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension
- wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
- wonderfulness, marvellousness.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
Genitive | mīrāculī | mīrāculōrum |
Dative | mīrāculō | mīrāculīs |
Accusative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
Ablative | mīrāculō | mīrāculīs |
Vocative | mīrāculum | mīrācula |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: (some or all semi-learned)
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: mrekulli
- Learned borrowings:
References
[edit]- “miraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “miraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- miraculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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