Definitions For Mirative

Adjective

(not comparable) (grammatical mood) Of or relating to the #noun, mirative mood.

Antonyms

non-mirative

Hypernyms

admirative

Derived terms

mirativity

Translations

Finnish: miratiivi-

Noun

MIRATIVE. (countable and uncountable, plural MIRATIVEs) (uncountable, grammatical mood) A grammatical mood that express#verb, expresses (surprise#noun, surprise at) unexpected revelations or new information. (countable, grammatical mood) (An instance of) a form of a word#noun, word which conveys this mood.

Related terms

See list at admire.

Translations

Albanian: mënyra habitore, f Finnish: miratiivi German: Admirativ Russian: адмирати́вность Swedish: admirativ Finnish: miratiivi

Etymology

Possibly from admirative, (ad)mirative, from "unexpected" in a similar context by Albanian translator and scholar {{w, Kostandin Kristoforidhi}} (1826–1895)),{{cite-book, author=Victor A. Friedman, authorlink=Victor Friedman, chapter=Evidentiality in the Balkans with Special Attention to Macedonian and Albanian, editors=w:alexandra aikhenvald, alexandra y. aikhenvald and w:robert m. w. dixon, r. m. w. dixon, title=Studies in Evidentiality, series=Typological Studies in Language, seriesvolume=54, location=Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa., publisher={{w, John Benjamins Publishing Company}}, year=2003, page=192, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=POJGKLB7ihIC&pg=PA192, isbn=978-90-272-2962-5, issn=0167-7373}}. from {{der, en, la, admīrārī}},{{R:Oxford English Dictionary, entry=Admirative, part of speech=a, volume=I, page=120, column=1}} {{glossary, present}} {{glossary, active}} {{glossary, infinitive}} of admīror, , to admire, respect; to be astonished, to be surprised at, from ad-, , prefix meaning ‘to’ + mīror, , to admire, marvel at; to be amazed or astonished at (ultimately from {{der, en, ine-pro, *smey-, , to be glad, laugh}}).