Etymology

admirative

A1D2M3I1R1A1T1I1V4E1

Today it means: Characterized by admiration. Full definition →

French admiratif ← Medieval Latin admirativus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromadmirativus
  2. French · borrowed fromadmiratif
  3. English todayadmirative

Via French admiratif or directly from its etymon, Medieval Latin admirativus.

Words from the same roots

Frenchadmiratif all →

mirative

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.