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omen

See also: Omen, òmen, and ōmen

English

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Etymology

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From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).

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Noun

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omen (plural omens)

 
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  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.
    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, chapter 10, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, Part 3:
      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. A thing of prophetic significance.
    A sign of ill omen.

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

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Verb

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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.

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Basque

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Etymology

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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.[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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omen inan

  1. fame, renown

Declension

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Declension of omen (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive omen omena omenak
ergative omenek omenak omenek
dative omeni omenari omenei
genitive omenen omenaren omenen
comitative omenekin omenarekin omenekin
causative omenengatik omenarengatik omenengatik
benefactive omenentzat omenarentzat omenentzat
instrumental omenez omenaz omenez
inessive omenetan omenean omenetan
locative omenetako omeneko omenetako
allative omenetara omenera omenetara
terminative omenetaraino omeneraino omenetaraino
directive omenetarantz omenerantz omenetarantz
destinative omenetarako omenerako omenetarako
ablative omenetatik omenetik omenetatik
partitive omenik — —
prolative omentzat — —

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Particle

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omen

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

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ “omen” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further reading

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  • “omen”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “omen”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Latin

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Etymology

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

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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
    • 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 1.46.104:
      […] Quod omen res consecuta est; ipsa enim brevi mortua est, virgo autem nupsit, cui Caecilia nupta fuerat. Haec posse contemni vel etiam rideri praeclare intellego, sed id ipsum est deos non putare, quae ab iis significantur, contemnere.
      […] And this was a sign of what came to pass, for in a short time Caecilia died and the girl married her aunt's husband. I realize perfectly well that these omens may be lightly regarded and even be laughed at, but to make light of signs sent by the gods is nothing less than to disbelieve in the existence of the gods.
    • ~101 CE, Juvenal, Satires 4.123–125:
      non cedit Veiiento, sed ut fanaticus oestro / percussus, Bellona, tuo diuinat et "ingens / omen habes" inquit "magni clarique triumphi..."
      Veiientus yields not, but as one inspired by the maddening / influence of the goddess Bellona, prophesies. "A mighty / token this you possess" he says "of some great and illustrious triumph..."

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

singular plural
nominative ōmen ōmina
genitive ōminis ōminum
dative ōminī ōminibus
accusative ōmen ōmina
ablative ōmine ōminibus
vocative ōmen ōmina

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

References

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  • “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.
    • 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
  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “omen”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Watkins, Calvert (1985) The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōmen”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 427-8

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin omen.

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

  1. an omen

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Latin omen.

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

  1. an omen

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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omen m

  1. definite singular of om

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Noun

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omen m (plural omens)

  1. Alternative form of ome

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ōmen. First attested in 1585, originally as a neuter noun.[1]

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Noun

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omen m inan

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

Declension

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Declension of omen
singular plural
nominative omen omeny
genitive omenu omenów
dative omenowi omenom
accusative omen omeny
instrumental omenem omenami
locative omenie omenach
vocative omenie omeny
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References

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  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “omen”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Further reading

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

Slovene

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ōmen. First attested in the 19th century.

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  • IPA(key): /òːmɛn/, /óːmɛn/

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ọ̄men m

  1. (literary) omen, foreboding

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  • “omen”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Slovincian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish amen. Compare Kashubian amen.

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omen m inan (indeclinable)

  1. (religion) amen

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin omen.

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omen n

  1. an omen
    dåliga omen
    bad omens

Declension

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Declension of omen
nominative genitive
singular indefinite omen omens
definite omenet omenets
plural indefinite omen omens
definite omenen omenens

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