ominate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ominātus, perfect active participle of ominor (“to presage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from omen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒmɪneɪt/

Verb

ominate (third-person singular simple present ominates, present participle ominating, simple past and past participle ominated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be an omen for (something); to foreshow, to presage. [1582-1827]
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:

     A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellovvſhippe by nature, vvhereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes vvas predeſtinate to thee from thy ſvvadling clothes.

   • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:

     I vviſh Philotheus no vvorſe ſucceſs then he had yesterday. But I cannot ominate ſo vvell touching this Congreſs.

Related terms

• abominable
• abominate
• omen
• omination
• ominous
• preominate

References

• “ominate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Maniote, amniote, iomante

Latin

Participle

ōmināte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōminātus

Spanish

Verb

ominate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ominar combined with te