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ominor

ominor · v. dep

to forebode

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ōmĭnor — Lewis & Short

ōmĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. (ante-class.

I act. collat. form ōmĭno, āre: ut tibi bene sit, qui ominas, Pompon. ap. Non. 474, 11) [omen], to forebode, prognosticate, to augur, presage, predict, prophesy (class.; syn.: divino, auguro, auspicor, vaticinor): malo (alienae) quam nostrae (rei publicae), ominari, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 74: melius, quaeso, ominare, id. Brut. 96, 329: felix faustumque imperium, Liv. 26, 18, 8: ac prope certā spe ominatos esse homines finem, etc., id. 44, 22, 17: vera de exitu Antonii, Vell. 2, 71, 2: optamus tibi ominamurque in proximum annum consulatum, Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 5; cf.: clamor militum et sibi adversa, et Galbae prospera ominantium, wishing, Suet. Ner. 48.—Of things: naves cum commeatu rediere, velut ominatae ad praedam alteram repetendam sese venisse, as if they had divined, had had a presentiment, Liv. 29, 35, 1; cf. Weissenb. ad id. 27, 31, 3: male ominatis Parcite verbis, words of evil omen, Hor. C. 3, 14, 11.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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