admirar

/admiˈɾaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to admire

🪞 ad- + mirar (to look): you keep looking at what you admire

From Latin admirari, ad- (at) + mirari (to wonder). The same root gives English mirror, miracle and marvel. In Spanish, mirar still means to look, so admirar means to look at something with wonder.

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