different between omen vs prognostication
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:
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prognostication
English
Etymology
From Old French pronosticacion, from Medieval Latin prognosticatio
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
prognostication (countable and uncountable, plural prognostications)
- A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
- 1837, The Dublin University Magazine
- She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
- 1837, The Dublin University Magazine
Translations
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