# miraculum
## English
### Etymology

From Latin mīrāculum. Doublet of milagro and miracle.

### Noun

miraculum
* (rare, nonstandard) A miracle.
** 1857 October, J. A. Nash, M. P. Parish, “Speculations on the Origin of Plants. By David Rice, M.D.”, in The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil. […], volume X, number 4, New York, N.Y.: J. A. Nash & M. P. Parish, footnote by editors, page 206:What is a miracle? A miracle—miraculum, wonder, something that astonishes—is simply a thing out of the common course, and is no more an exhibition of power than the ordinary operations of nature. […] If a sick man, almost too feeble to move a limb, should all at once rise from his bed, bid his doctor and nurse farewell, and go to work in his field, that would be a miracle, a miraculum, a most astonishing occurrence.
** 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
### Etymology

From mīror (“I wonder or marvel at”) +‎ -culum (derivative suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /miːˈraː.ku.lum/, [miːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /miˈra.ku.lum/, [miˈräːkulum]

### Noun

mīrāculum n (genitive mīrāculī); second declension
* wonder, marvel, miracle; a wonderful, strange or marvellous thing.
    Synonyms: portentum, mōnstrum, ostentum, prōdigium, mīrum
* wonderfulness, marvellousness.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* mīrāculārius
* mīrāculātor
* mīrāculō

#### Related terms

* mīrābiliārius
* mīrābilis
* mīrābilitās
* mīrābiliter
* mīrābundus
* mīrācula
* mīrandus
* mīrātiō
* mīrātor
* mīrātrīx
* mīrē
* mīrificē
* mīrificentia
* mīrificō
* mīrificus
* mīrimodīs
* mīriō
* mīrō
* mīror
* mīrus

#### Descendants

* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: mirachi, mirache
** Romanian: mirac
* Ibero-Romance: (all semi-learned)
** Asturian: milagru
** Old Galician-Portuguese: miragre
*** Galician: milagre
*** Portuguese: milagre
** Old Spanish: milagro, miraglo
*** Spanish: milagro
**** → Chavacano: milagro
**** → English: milagro
**** → Karao: milagro
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Albanian: mrekulli
* Learned borrowings:
** → Catalan: miracle
** → Friulian: meracul
** → Italian: miracolo
*** → Romanian: miracol
** → Neapolitan: miraculo
** → Occitan: miracle
** → Old French: miracle
*** French: miracle
**** → Esperanto: miraklo
*** → Danish: mirakel
*** → English: miracle
*** → Middle Dutch: mirakele
**** Dutch: mirakel
** → Portuguese: miráculo
** → Sicilian: miràculu
** → Spanish: miráculo

### References

* “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.