omen

See also Omen

English

Etymology

From Latin omen (“foreboding, omen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈəʊmən/
• (US) IPA: /ˈoʊmən/

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• Rhymes: -əʊmən

Noun

omen (plural omens)

Wikipedia

1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.

2. prophetic significance

   a sign of ill omen

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:omen

Related terms

• ominous

Translations

something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding

• French: présage (fr) m
• German: Omen (de) n

• Greek: οιωνός (el) (oionós) m , σημάδι (el) (simádi) n 
• Italian: presagio (it) m
• Maori: takiari (mi)
• Portuguese: presságio (pt) m
• Russian: знамение (ru) (znamenije)

prophetic significance

• French: présage (fr) m
• German: Omen (de) n

• Greek: οιωνός (el) (oionós) m 
• Italian: presagio (it) m
• Portuguese: presságio (pt) m

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• Serbian: znamenje n, predznak m, predskazanje n, kob m

Verb

omen (third-person singular simple present omens, present participle omening, simple past and past participle omened)

1. To be an omen of.
2. To divine or predict from omens.

See also

• augury
• foreboding
• portend
• portent

External links

• omen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• omen in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• nome, Nome

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Latin

Noun

ōmen (genitive ōminis); n, third declension

1. an omen

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ōmen	ōmina
genitive	ōminis	ōminum
dative	ōminī	ōminibus
accusative	ōmen	ōmina
ablative	ōmine	ōminibus
vocative	ōmen	ōmina

Related terms

• ominatio
• ominator
• ominari
• ominosus