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Miranda

Pronunciation: /mɪˈran.da/

“Miranda” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 2 meanings in English:

proper noun

  1. Miranda; the smallest and innermost of the five major moons of Uranus
  2. a pure, non-strict functional programming language designed by David Turner in the 1980s

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English Miranda (“female given name”), probably coined by William Shakespeare for Prospero's daughter in The Tempest (c. 1611), from Latin mīranda (“which is to be wondered or marvelled at; admirable”), the feminine form of mīrandus, the gerundive of Latin mīrō (“to wonder at, marvel at”). The Latin verb belongs to the family of Latin mīrus (“wonderful,…

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