mirabilibus

Mirabilibus is a Latin inflected form of the adjective mirabilis, meaning marvelous or wonderful. It is used as the dative plural or ablative plural form, applicable to all genders, and occurs when an adjective modifies a plural noun in the dative or ablative case, or when it stands in a noun-like function in Latin syntax.

In Latin grammar, mirabilibus represents the -ibus ending of the third-declension adjective in the plural dative and plural ablative: mirabilibus for masculine, feminine, and neuter in those cases. This form can function as a descriptive modifier in phrases such as in mirabilibus or mirabilibus dictis, and it can also appear in constructions where the phrase means “the marvelous things” or “with marvelous things,” depending on how the rest of the sentence is structured.

Etymologically, mirabilibus derives from mirabilis, from mirari, the verb “to wonder,” and shares a root with mirabilia, a noun meaning “wonders” or “marvels.” The form mirabilibus thus sits within a family of expressions that Latin uses to convey wonder, amazement, and extraordinary quality, across both classical and medieval texts. The word is not typically treated as a standalone lexical entry in dictionaries; rather, it is understood as a grammatical form serving a broader sense of marvels or marvelous things when attached to a plural noun.

See also: mirabilia, mirabile, mirabilis.