different between envisage vs portend

English

Etymology

From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?z?d?/, /?n?v?z?d?/

Verb

envisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)

1. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
   • 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

     From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

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Further reading

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

French

Verb

envisage

1. first-person singular present indicative of envisager
2. third-person singular present indicative of envisager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
5. second-person singular imperative of envisager

Anagrams

• vengeais

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portendere (“to foretell”), from por- (“forward”) + tendere (“to stretch”), present active infinitive of tendo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???t?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???t?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

portend (third-person singular simple present portends, present participle portending, simple past and past participle portended)

1. (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of.
2. (transitive) To signify; to denote.

Synonyms

• foreshadow
• presage

Related terms

• portent
• portentive
• portentous

Translations

See also

• harbinger

Anagrams

• dropnet, protend