different between presage vs auspice

English

Etymology

From Middle French presage, from Latin praes?gium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??s?d?/, /p???se?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?
• Hyphenation: pre?sage

Noun

presage (plural presages)

1. A warning of a future event; an omen.
2. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!

Translations

Verb

presage (third-person singular simple present presages, present participle presaging, simple past and past participle presaged)

1. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
   • (Q2 version):

     If I may tru?t the flattering truth of ?leepe, / My dreames pre?age ?ome ioyfull newes at hand?: / My bo?omes L. ?its lightly in his throne?: / And all this day an vnaccu?tom’d ?pirit, / Lifts me aboue the ground with cheatfull thoughts […]
2. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
3. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Synonyms

• foreshadow
• forespell
• portend

Translations

Anagrams

• asperge, preages, sperage

English

Etymology

From Middle French auspice, from Latin auspicium, in turn from auspex.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôs?p?s, IPA^(key): /???sp?s/
• (US) enPR: ôs?p?s, IPA^(key): /??sp?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: äs?p?s, IPA^(key): /??sp?s/

Noun

auspice (plural auspices)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Patronage or protection.

   This building was built under the auspices of the Friends of the Poor.

2. An omen or a sign.

   The circle of vultures was not a good auspice.

3. (obsolete) Divination from the actions of birds.

Hypernyms

• (patronage or protection): support
• (divination from the actions of birds): augury, fortunetelling, divination

Related terms

• auspiced
• auspicing
• auspicious

Translations

Verb

auspice (third-person singular simple present auspices, present participle auspicing, simple past and past participle auspiced)

1. to be patron of; to sponsor

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auspicium.

Noun

auspice m (plural auspices)

1. (chiefly in the plural) omen; auspices

Derived terms

• auspicieux

References

• “auspice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin auspex.

Noun

auspice m (plural auspici)

1. auspex
2. patron, sponsor, promoter

Related terms

• auspicio
• auspicare

Further reading

• auspice in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

auspice

1. ablative singular of auspex