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marvellous

Today it means: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. Full definition →

Middle English merveilous ← Old French merveillus

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Old French · derived frommerveillus
Middle English · inherited frommerveilous
English todaymarvellous

First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”) + -us. Doublet of merveilleux. See also marvel.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishmerveilous all →

Old Frenchmerveillus all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.