English search results for: omens
#1
adjective
Definitions:
- lucky/favorable/propitious (omens/prospects)
- prosperous, successful/triumphal
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#2
adverb
Definitions:
- auspiciously
- after taking the auspices/auguries
- with good omens
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: deponent
Definitions:
- begin with auspices, make ceremonial start
- portend
- seek omens
- take auspices
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- bad omens, presages of evil
- curses, imprecations (pl.)
- Harpies
- The Furies
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- pinnacles
- threats (pl.), menaces
- warning signs, evil omens/prognostications
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: common
Definitions:
- bird which gives omens by its cry
- song-bird
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
- announce adverse omens
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#8
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
- consecrate by augury
- take omens by the flight of birds
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#9
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
- make (acceptable) offering (to)
- obtain/give favorable omens from sacrifice
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#10
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- priest who interpreted omens from lightning
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#11
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
- begin with auspices, make ceremonial start
- portend
- seek omens
- take auspices
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#12
adjective
Definitions:
- full of ill omens, portentous
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#13
adjective
Definitions:
- giving omens
- pertaining to/suitable for divination/auguries
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)