English → Latin
“surprising” in Latin
admīrābilisadmirable, wonderful, worthy of admiration; surprising, astonishing, amazing, rare, strange, producing wondermīruswonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculousmīrificuswonderful, amazing, miraculousmīrābiliswonderful, marvellous, astonishing, extraordinary, remarkable, amazing; glorious; miracleingēnshuge, vast, enormous; immoderate, exorbitant; extraordinary, unnaturalimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savagecūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside ove
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
surprising
stupendus: admirabilis: mirus: mirificus: mirabilis. Sometimes ingens, immanis (huge, immense). A surprising amount of money, immanes pecuniae: to perform surprising cures, mirabiliter mederi aegrotis (Plin.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for surprising?
- The usual Latin words for “surprising” are admīrābilis, mīrus, mīrificus; also mīrābilis, ingēns, immānis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.