augur
See also: Augur
English
WOTD – 13 May 2009
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.ɡə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɡɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.ɡɚ/
Audio (US cot-caught merger) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːɡə(ɹ)
- Homophone: auger; see also AGA
Noun
augur (plural augurs)
- A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
- Dryden
- Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found / Without a priestly curse or boding sound.
- Dryden
- (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
Translations
diviner who foretells events by unusual occurrences
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Verb
augur (third-person singular simple present augurs, present participle auguring, simple past and past participle augured)
- To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
- To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.
- to augur well or ill
Derived terms
Translations
to foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events
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Latin
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Two possibilities are:
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ɡur/, [ˈau̯.ɡʊr]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | augur | augurēs |
Genitive | auguris | augurum |
Dative | augurī | auguribus |
Accusative | augurem | augurēs |
Ablative | augure | auguribus |
Vocative | augur | augurēs |
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- augur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- augur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- augur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- augur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- augur in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- augur in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Lewis, Charlton T., Elementary Latin Dictionary, Oxford, 1890.
- Simpson, D.P., Cassell's New Latin Dictionary, Funk & Wagnall's, 1959.
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