ominor
σταγόνες ὕδατος πέτρας κοιλαίνουσιν → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ōmĭnor: ātus, 1, v. dep. (ante-class.
I 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.
