omen

From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊmən

omen (plural omens)

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

   the ghost's appearance was an ill omen

   a rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery

   the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen

   • 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

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

• portent, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken; see also Thesaurus:omen

• ominous

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

1. (transitive) To be an omen of.
2. (intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.

• prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

• augury
• foreboding
• portend
• portent
• stars are aligned

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

• Emon, Mone, NEMO, Nome, meno-, meon, mone, nome

From Old Latin osmen, of uncertain ultimate origin. Ancient authors derived it from ōs (“mouth”). Recently it was by some referred to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to see, perceive”) (whence audiō)[1] or to the source of Ancient Greek Ancient Greek οἴομαι (oíomai, “I think, believe, suppose”)[2].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.men/, [ˈoː.mɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.men/, [ˈoː.men]

ōmen n (genitive ōminis); third declension

1. an omen

Third declension neuter.

• ōminor
• ōminōsus

• English: omen
• German: Omen
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: omen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: omen

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wish prosperity to an undertaking: aliquid optimis ominibus prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • and may heaven avert the omen! heaven preserve us from this: quod di immortales omen avertant! (Phil. 44. 11)
    
  • to accept as a happy omen: omen accipere (opp. improbare)
    
  • to interpret something as an omen: accipere, vertere aliquid in omen
    
  • with favourable omens: faustis ominibus
    
  • an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste
    
• omen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin omen

omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen or omener or omina, definite plural omena or omenene or ominaene)

1. an omen

• “omen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin omen

omen n (definite singular omenet, indefinite plural omen, definite plural omena)

1. an omen

• “omen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

omen m

1. Alternative form of ome