The story
- Latin · derived frommīrābilis“miraculous”
- English todaymirabilite
From Latin mīrābilis (“miraculous”) + -ite. From the Latin term sal mirabilis (“wonderful salt”), which was used by German-Dutch alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604–1670) after he inadvertently synthesised the substance.
Words from the same roots
Latinmīrābilis all →
mirabilismirable
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.