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admire

ad-MYRE · verb

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Origin

English admire comes from Middle English admyren, borrowed from Middle French admirer, which traces back to Latin admīror, formed from ad- plus mīror, meaning 'to wonder at.'

Journey

The word has carried its core sense of wondering at something all the way from Latin through French into English, without any recorded shift in meaning.

Related words

The facts given don't name any English cognate sharing the Latin root mīror, so none can be stated here.

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