omen

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

presagio

augurio

simbolo

auspicio

sinonimi

auspicium

portentum

augurium

monstrum

praenuntius

signum

prodigium

Traduzioni

portent

omen

auguri

Vorzeichen

sign

auspice

augury

présage

presságio

augure

Omen

presage

Zeichen

οιωνός

indication

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈoː.mɛn]

Etimologia (Inglese)

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 *Hoǵ-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-.