English search results for: omens

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. lucky/favorable/propitious (omens/prospects)
  2. prosperous, successful/triumphal
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

adverb

Definitions:

  1. auspiciously
  2. after taking the auspices/auguries
  3. with good omens
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. begin with auspices, make ceremonial start
  2. portend
  3. seek omens
  4. take auspices
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. bad omens, presages of evil
  2. curses, imprecations (pl.)
  3. Harpies
  4. The Furies
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. pinnacles
  2. threats (pl.), menaces
  3. warning signs, evil omens/prognostications
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: common

Definitions:

  1. bird which gives omens by its cry
  2. song-bird
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. announce adverse omens
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#8

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. consecrate by augury
  2. take omens by the flight of birds
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#9

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. make (acceptable) offering (to)
  2. obtain/give favorable omens from sacrifice
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#10

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. priest who interpreted omens from lightning
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#11

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. begin with auspices, make ceremonial start
  2. portend
  3. seek omens
  4. take auspices
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#12

adjective

Definitions:

  1. full of ill omens, portentous
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#13

adjective

Definitions:

  1. giving omens
  2. pertaining to/suitable for divination/auguries
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)