mirusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.rus/, [ˈmiːrʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.rus/, [ˈmiːrus]

形容詞

mīrus (feminine mīra, neuter mīrum, 比較級 mīrior, 最上級 mīrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. wonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculous
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.370:

     credite dicenti: mira, sed acta, loquor

     Believe what I’m saying: [These things may seem] marvelous, but they happened, I tell [you]

使用する際の注意点

The comparative mīrior and superlative mīrissimus were not used in Classical Latin. Instead, the periphrastic expressions magis mīrus and maximē mīrus were used.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

参照

• “mīrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mīrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 981
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
    
  • there is nothing strange in that: neque id mirum est or videri debet
    
• “mīrus” on page 1,116/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)