# mirror
## English
### Alternative forms

* mirrour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɪ.ɹə/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmi.ɹəɹ/, /ˈmɪ.ɹəɹ/, /ˈmɪɹ/
** Audio (California):(file)
* (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmə.ɹa/
* (Ireland) IPA: /ˈmɪ.ɹəɹ/, /ˈmɜɹ/
* (Scotland) IPA: /ˈmɪ.ɹəɹ/
* Rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ), -ɪə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)
* Homophones: mere, myrrh, mur (all in some North American accents only)

### Noun

mirror (plural mirrors)
* A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
    Synonyms: glass, looking-glass
    I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
    We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.
* (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
    His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine.
* (computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
    Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.
* A mirror carp.
* (historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.

#### Hyponyms

* acoustic mirror
* black mirror
* Bragg mirror
* burning mirror
* Chinese magic mirror
* conjugate mirror
* distorting mirror
* dressing mirror
* fold mirror
* funhouse mirror
* half-silvered mirror
* handmirror
* ion mirror
* liquid mirror
* magic mirror
* magnetic mirror
* milk mirror
* one-way mirror
* parabolic mirror
* plane mirror
* rear-view mirror
* rearview mirror
* rear-vision mirror
* rear vision mirror
* side mirror
* side-view mirror
* skinny mirror
* sound mirror
* spherical mirror
* submirror
* trumeau mirror
* two-way mirror
* wing mirror

#### Derived terms

* antimirror
* bemirror
* clear as a mirror
* do with mirrors
* fog a mirror
* hold a mirror to
* hold a mirror up to
* hold up a mirror to
* liquid mirror telescope
* look at oneself in the mirror
* man in the mirror
* metamirror
* micromirror
* mirrorable
* mirror armor
* mirror armour
* mirror ball
* mirror canon
* mirror fugue
* mirrorful
* mirror image
* mirror-image twin
* mirrorize
* mirrorless
* mirror life
* mirrorlike
* mirror-like
* mirror match
* mirror matter
* mirror-nearer merger
* mirror neuron
* mirror punishment
* mirrorscope
* mirrorshades
* mirror stage
* mirror symmetry
* mirror syndrome
* mirror test
* mirror theory
* mirrortocracy
* mirrortree
* mirror twin
* Mirrorverse
* mirror will
* mirrorwise
* mirrorwork
* mirrory
* mismirror
* mouth mirror
* multimirror
* nanomirror
* pentamirror
* remirror
* supermirror
* time reversal mirror
* unmirrored

#### Translations
### Verb

mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)
* (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
* (transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of.
    He tried to mirror Elvis's life by copying his fashion and mannerisms.
* (transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

#### Translations
### See also

* cheval glass
* looking glass

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mirror.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoh], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoh], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈmi.ɾoɾ/, /ˈmi.ɹoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈmi.ɾoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɾoχ], /ˈmi.ɹoʁ/ [ˈmi.ɹoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɾoɻ/, /ˈmi.ɹoɻ/

### Noun

mirror m (plural mirrors)
* (computing, Internet) mirror (replica of other websites)