different between augury vs omen
augury
English
Etymology
augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.?j?.?i/
Noun
augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:omen
Hyponyms
Related terms
- augur
Translations
augury From the web:
- what augury appeared to remus and romulus
- augury meaning
- augury what does that mean
- what is augury in the bible
omen
English
Etymology
From Latin ?men (“foreboding, omen”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???m?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?m?n/
- Rhymes: -??m?n
Noun
omen (plural omens)
- Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
- A thing of prophetic significance.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky. The terms for a positive omen aren't used much negatively, and it's considered oxymoronic by some to use it positively.
Synonyms
- augury, auspice, forecast, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indication, oracle, portent, prediction, presage, prophecy, sign, signal, token, warning; danger sign, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall; see also Thesaurus:omen
Related terms
- ominous
- abomination
Translations
Verb
omen (third-person singular simple present omens, present participle omening, simple past and past participle omened)
- (transitive) To be an omen of.
- (intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.
Synonyms
- prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage
See also
- augury
- foreboding
- portend
- portent
- stars are aligned
Further reading
- omen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- omen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Emon, Mone, NEMO, Nome, meno-, meon, mone, nemo, nome
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin osmen, of uncertain ultimate origin. Ancient authors derived it from ?s (“mouth”). Recently it was by some referred to Proto-Indo-European *h?ew- (“to see, perceive”) (whence audi?) or to the source of Ancient Greek ?????? (oíomai, “I think, believe, suppose”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?o?.men/, [?o?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?o.men/, [???m?n]
Noun
?men n (genitive ?minis); third declension
- an omen
- Synonym: ?r?culum
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
- ?minor
- ?min?sus
Related terms
- praen?nti?
Descendants
- Dutch: omen
- English: omen
- German: Omen
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: omen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: omen
References
- omen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- omen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- omen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- omen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- omen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin omen
Noun
omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen or omener or omina, definite plural omena or omenene or ominaene)
- an omen
References
- “omen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin omen.
Noun
omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen, definite plural omena)
- an omen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
omen m
- definite singular of om
References
- “omen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Portuguese
Noun
omen m
- Alternative form of ome
omen From the web:
- what omen means
- what omen is an owl
- what omens does casca see
- what omen does zeus send
- what omens bothered montezuma
- what omens frighten calpurnia
- what omen is a crow
- what omen is a hawk
you may also like
- augury vs omen
- augury vs augurial
- presentiment vs augury
- ominous vs augury
- augury vs taxonomy
- augury vs augurs
- divination vs augury
- appearance vs augury
- behaviour vs augury
- prediction vs augury
- prophecy vs augury
- peraluminous vs peralkaline
- igneous vs peraluminous
- rock vs peraluminous
- aluminium vs peraluminous
- sodium vs peraluminous
- potassium vs peraluminous
- calcium vs peraluminous
- aluminous vs taxonomy
- fluminous vs aluminous