Spiegel

See also: spiegel

English

Alternative forms

Spegal

Etymology

From German Spiegel.

Proper noun

Spiegel (plural Spiegels)

A surname from German.

German

Spiegel (sense 1)

Spiegel of a deer (sense 5.3)

Etymology

From Middle High German spiegel, from Old High German spiegal or spēgal, from Medieval Latin speclum, from Latin speculum. Cognate with German Low German Spegel, Dutch spiegel[1], Hunsrik Spieghel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃpiːɡ(ə)l/
(Germany)
(file)
(Austria)
(file)

Noun

Spiegel m (strong, genitive Spiegels, plural Spiegel, diminutive Spiegelchen n or Spieglein n)

mirror (smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light)
- 1812, Brüder Grimm, Schneewittchen‎:
  […] Sie hatte auch einen Spiegel, vor den trat sie alle Morgen und fragte: / „Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: / wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?“
  She had a Mirror before which she came every morning. She'd ask: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest Woman in the entire land?"
Sie hatte einen großen Spiegel. ― She had a large mirror.
level (of a liquid)
Synonyms: Pegel, Konzentration

Meeresspiegel ― sea level

Alkoholspiegel ― alcohol level (amount in blood, for example)
surface (flat overside or up-side of a liquid)
Synonym: Wasseroberfläche
schematic overview, table (two-dimensional presentation of data)
Synonym: Tabelle

Notenspiegel ― transcript (as in a set of notes that mirrors the conversation)

Gehaltsspiegel ― salary tables (pay levels)
white or light-coloured mark (on an animal)
1. on the forehead of horses and cattle
  Das Pony hatte einen hübsch geformten Spiegel auf der Stirn.
  The pony had a nicely shaped mark on the forehead.
2. on the wing of a goose, capercaillie, or black cock
3. on the hindquarters of deer

Declension

Declension of Spiegel [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Spiegel	die	Spiegel
genitive	eines	des	Spiegels	der	Spiegel
dative	einem	dem	Spiegel	den	Spiegeln
accusative	einen	den	Spiegel	die	Spiegel

Derived terms

spiegelartig
spiegelig
spiegeln
Spiegelung
Spiegelein
Spiegelchen

Related terms

Alkoholspiegel (“alcohol level”)
Augenspiegel (“ophthalmoscope”)
Autospiegel (“car mirror”)
Blutspiegel (“blood level”)
Cholesterinspiegel (“blood cholesterol level”)
Flügelspiegel
Glasspiegel (“glass mirror”)
Hauptspiegel
Kristallspiegel (“crystal mirror”)
Medaillenspiegel (“medals table”)
Meeresspiegel (“sea level”)
Metallspiegel (“metal mirror”)
Natriumspiegel (“sodium level”)
Plasmaspiegel (“plasma level”)
Rückspiegel (“rear-view mirror”)
Serumspiegel (“serum level”)
Spiegelbild (“mirror image, reflection”)
Spiegelebene (“mirror plane”)
Spiegelfläche (“mirror surface”)
Spiegelglanz (“mirror finish”)
spiegelgleich
Spiegelreflexkamera
Spiegelsaal
Spiegelstrich
spiegelsymmetrisch
Spiegeltest (“mirror test”)
spiegelverkehrt (“mirror-inverted”)
Taschenspiegel (“pocket mirror”)
Wandspiegel (“wall mirror”)
Wasserspiegel (“water level”)

Descendants

→ Esperanto: spegulo
→ Kashubian: szpédżel
→ Romansch: spievel, spieghel, spejel
→ Russian: с̌пи́гел (špígel)

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Spiegel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading

Spiegel (Begriffsklärung) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
“Spiegel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Spiegel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Spiegel” in Duden online

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