abominor
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- abōminō (more archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From ab- (“of, by, from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”).
VerbEdit
abōminor (present infinitive abōminārī, perfect active abōminātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
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ReferencesEdit
- abominor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abominor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abominor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)
- God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)