different between augur vs divine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augur? (“interpret omens”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• Rhymes: -????(?)
• Homophone: auger; see also AGA

Noun

augur (plural augurs)

1. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
2. (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.

Translations

Verb

augur (third-person singular simple present augurs, present participle auguring, simple past and past participle augured)

1. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.

   to augur well or ill

Derived terms

• augury

Translations

Further reading

• augur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• augur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• augur at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Two possibilities are:

• From Old Latin *augus (“increase”) (genitive *augeris), which is related to auge? (“to increase”). This could be inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwgos; compare Sanskrit ???? (ojas, “strength, vigor”), Avestan ????????????????????? (aojah), ????????????????????? (aogah, “might, power”) as well as Latin augustus (< *h?ewgos-tos).
• From avis (“bird”) + garrire (“to talk”), as augurs were known to observe the behavior of birds.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.?ur/, [?äu???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.?ur/, [???u??ur]

Noun

augur m or f (genitive auguris); third declension

1. augur

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• auspex

Derived terms

• augurium
• augur?

Descendants

References

• augur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• augur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augur in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• augur in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Noun

augur

1. Alternative form of nauger

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin augur

Noun

augur m (definite singular auguren, indefinite plural augurer, definite plural augurene)

1. (historical) an augur, see English augur for more.
2. (informal) a chief, bigwig

References

• “augur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “augur” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin augur

Noun

augur m (definite singular auguren, indefinite plural augurar, definite plural augurane)

1. (historical) an augur, see English augur for more.
2. (informal) a chief, bigwig

References

• “augur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French augure, from Latin augur, augurium.

Noun

augur m (plural auguri)

1. augur, auspex

Noun

augur n (uncountable)

1. augury, omen

Related terms

• augura

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin augur.

Noun

augur m (plural augures)

1. augur

Related terms

Further reading

• “augur” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-v?n?, IPA^(key): /d??va?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Old French divin, from Latin d?v?nus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).

Adjective

divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)

1. Of or pertaining to a god.
2. Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
3. Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
4. Beautiful, heavenly.
5. (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
6. (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
   • 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:

     (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
     On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
     Thou lye?t downe mortall, who mu?t ri?e diuine.
7. Relating to divinity or theology.

   • church history and other divine learning

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to a god): deific, godlike, godly
• (eternal, holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): supreme, ultimate
• (beautiful, heavenly): beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful

Antonyms

• (of or pertaining to a god): undivine, ungodly
• (eternal, holy): godless, secular, ungodly
• (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
• (beautiful, heavenly): horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

divine (plural divines)

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

     Poets were the first divines.

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
   • December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth

     The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

3. (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

Synonyms

• (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
• (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)

Derived terms

• archdivine
• school-divine

Translations

Etymology 2

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin d?v?n?.

Verb

divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)

1. (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     a sagacity which divined the evil designs
2. (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     no secret can be told
     To any who divined it not before

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43

     If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.

     I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.

3. (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
4. To render divine; to deify.
   • c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier

     Living on earth like angel new divined.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Related terms

• a lo divino
• baculus divinatorius
• divinistre
• Divinópolis
• Divinópolis de Goiás
• La Divina
• lectio divina
• Liposcelis divinatorius
• Salvia divinorum
• São José do Divino
• virgula divina
• voce divinare

Anagrams

• dive in

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vin/
• Rhymes: -in

Adjective

divine

1. feminine singular of divin

Italian

Adjective

divine

1. feminine plural of divino

Latin

Etymology

From d?v?nus (“of divine origin”)

Adverb

d?v?n? (comparative d?v?nius, superlative d?v?nissim?)

1. prophetically, by divine inspiration
2. divinely, admirably

Synonyms

• (divinely, admirably): d?v?nitus

Related terms

• d?v?n?ti?
• d?v?nit?s
• d?v?nitus
• d?v?n?
• d?v?nus

References

• divine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• divine in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Spanish

Verb

divine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.