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 Translation for 'omen' from English to Latin
NOUN   an omen | omens
VERB   to omen | omened | omened
omening | omens
SYNO omen | portent | presage | ...
omen {n}omen
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Translation for 'omen' from English to Latin

omen
omen {n}
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Usage Examples English
  • Other texts of importance include rituals, incantations, omen readings, contracts and vocabulary lists.
  • There were myriads of species considered "omen birds" in ancient Philippines.
  • This species is considered as sacred to the Tagalog people as this is perceived as tigmamanukan omen, and therefore, the sacred omen and messenger of Bathala, the supreme god in indigenous Tagalog religious practices.
  • Comets also have been considered both good and bad omens. Halley's Comet was a "bad omen" for King Harold II of England but a "good omen" for William the Conqueror.
  • The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death.

  • The iron snake would someday cross their land and would be a bad omen creating trouble as it went.
  • In Southeast Asia, geckos are believed to be carriers of good omen.
  • When all the Achaean seemed discouraged, Zeus sent an eagle as a good omen. Diomedes was the first warrior to read this omen, and he immediately attacked the Trojans and killed Agelaus.
  • In one of the instances that came under my personal observation a little unhulled rice was placed upon a log for the regalement of the omen bird, and a tame pet omen bird in an adjoining house was petted and fed and asked to summon its wild mates of the encircling forest to sing the song of victory.
  • After hearing the omen, the incarnation of Gotama Buddha begin to practise further.

  • Ancient Chinese astrology set great store by celestial omens and comets were an important omen, always disastrous.
  • The fallen flower was an omen of fruits forming, the scarecrow was an omen of a respectable figure appearing, and the mirror was an omen of an old face appearing.
  • Markku Louhio is also known for his other projects Headphonics, Highpersonic Whomen, Omen Sisters and The Faithealers.
  • Mir Nasir Khan Talpur's defeat was an ill omen for the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
  • The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death.

  • For the Dusun people of Borneo, the Oriental dwarf kingfisher is considered a bad omen, and warriors who see one on the way to battle should return home.
  • Only Roman citizens (both plebeians "and" patricians) had the right to confer magisterial powers ("potestas") on any individual magistrate. Omens could be discovered while observing the heavens, while studying the flight of birds, or while studying the entrails of sacrificed animals.
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