different between messenger vs omen

English

Etymology

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message +? -er. Doublet of messager.Displaced native English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and English ærendwreca (“messenger, ambassador”).

For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
• Hyphenation: mes?sen?ger

Noun

messenger (plural messengers)

1. One who brings messages.
2. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
3. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
4. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

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5. (computing) An instant messenger program.
6. A forerunner.
7. A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
8. A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
9. (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
10. The secretary bird.
11. (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.

Derived terms

• instant messenger
• raven-messenger

Translations

Verb

messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)

1. (transitive) To send something by messenger.

   I'll messenger over the signed documents.

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)

1. 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.
2. 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)

1. (transitive) To be an omen of.
2. (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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. an omen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

omen m

1. definite singular of om

References

• “omen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Portuguese

Noun

omen m

1. Alternative form of ome