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4-letter words (3 found)

MENO,NOME,OMEN,

3-letter words (7 found)

EMO,EON,MEN,MOE,MON,NOM,ONE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EM,EN,ME,MO,NE,NO,OE,OM,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

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omen moen oemn eomn meon emon omne mone onme nome mnoe nmoe oenm eonm onem noem enom neom meno emno mneo nmeo enmo nemo

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Definitions and meaning of omen

omen

Etymology

From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊmən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊmən/
  • Rhymes: -əʊmən

Noun

omen (plural omens)

  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

  • ominous
  • abomination

Translations

Verb

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.

Synonyms

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

See also

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

Further reading

  • “omen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “omen”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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

Basque

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Latin ōmen (“omen”), but the semantic shift is problematic. If it's not a borrowing, from something akin to Proto-Basque *oben.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /omen/ [o.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -omen
  • Hyphenation: o‧men

Noun

omen inan

  1. fame, renown

Declension

Derived terms

Particle

omen

  1. reportedly, apparently, I think
    Eguraldia hobetu omen da. ― It seems like the weather has improved.

Usage notes

In Basque, yes/no questions require a modal particle. The most common one is al, which introduces no additional meaning. For tentative questions, ote is used. The related particle omen indicates hearsay, but it's not used to form direct questions. All these particles are placed immediately before (auxiliary) verb forms.

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • "omen" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “omen” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed:

  • Ancient authors derived it from ōs (“mouth”).
  • Derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to see, perceive”) (whence audiō) or from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to perceive”), whence Ancient Greek οἴομαι (oíomai, “I think, believe, suppose”).
  • Per Beneviste and Oettinger, connected to Hittite [script needed] (hā-ᶻᶦ, “to believe, trust”) via a supposed Proto-Indo-European *h₂e/oh₃-s-mn (“trust”). De Vaan considers this semantically unconvincing.
  • Per De Vaan (who doubts the authenticity of the Old Latin form osmen), most likely from Proto-Italic *okʷsmn- (“sighting, omen”), from an s-present form of Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“to see; eye”) + *-men (whence -men).
  • An alternative theory by Meier-Brügger derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *Hoģ-smen (“speech, what was predicted”), from an o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ- (“to say”) (whence aiō (“id”)). This is semantically attractive, but requires the existence of the otherwise unattested-in-Latin o-grade of aiō, as well as an atypical formation of a smen-derivative from the Proto-Indo-European perfect *He-Hoǵ-.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.men/, [ˈoːmɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.men/, [ˈɔːmen]

Noun

ōmen n (genitive ōminis); third declension

  1. omen, sign, harbinger, portent, token (an object or occurrence believed to portend or predict a future event, circumstance, situation, or state of affairs)
    Synonym: ōrāculum

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • ōminor
  • ōminōsus
  • nōmen est ōmen

Related terms

  • praenūntiō

Descendants

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

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • omen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “omen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin omen.

Noun

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

  1. an omen

References

  • “omen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin omen.

Noun

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

  1. an omen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

omen m

  1. definite singular of om

References

  • “omen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

omen m

  1. Alternative form of ome

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōmen, from Old Latin osmen. First attested in 1585, originally as a neuter noun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.mɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmɛn
  • Syllabification: o‧men

Noun

omen m inan

  1. (literary) omen, foreboding
    Synonyms: przepowiednia, wróżba, zapowiedź
    dobry omen ― good omen
    zły omen ― bad/ill omen

Declension

Related terms

References

Further reading

  • omen in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • omen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin omen.

Noun

omen n

  1. an omen

Declension

See also

  • järtecken

References

  • omen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • omen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • omen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org