Noun: milagre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | milagre |
| Plural m | milagres |
Sample Sentences
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Et el tomou as cadeas en que fora preso, et foyse en rromaria a Santiago, et poseas y hu ainda seẽ ante o seu altar depondoradas en testemoyo d'este miragre (And he took the chains that kept him prisoner, and went in pilgrimage to Santiago, and put them there where they still are, hung before his altar as a testimony of this miracle) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 193:]
Nouns inflected like milagre
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese miragre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin mīrāculum (“object of wonder”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smei-, *mei- (“to smile, to be astonished”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
miragre', Old Portuguese Nouns '
miragre', Latin Nouns '
mīrāculum'.
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