ominor

ōmĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. (ante-class. 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.