" augurs "

[Verb]  | "augur" 

1: to foretell especially from omens

2: to give promise of : presage

3: to predict the future especially from omens

Origin: 1593 ;

 Borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French augurer, borrowed from Latin augurāre, augurārī "to foretell by augury, take auspices, prophesy, predict," derivative of augur {see: |augur:1|augur:1};

[Noun]  | "au*gur" | \ ˈȯ-gər \

1: an official diviner of ancient Rome

2: one held to foretell events by omens

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English augurre, augure, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French augure, borrowed from Latin augur, perhaps going back to *aug-u-s "the increased, one who receives the signs of increase," noun derivative of an s-stem adjective *aug-u-s "increased, grown," derivative of a u-stem adjective *aug-u- with the same sense, derivative from the base of augeō, augēre "to increase, make greater, heighten" {mat|eke:2|};

  * Note : Though a connection has long been sought between the noun augur and the verb augēre, as well as with the adjective augustus "solemn, venerable" (see: {august|august}), the semantic and morphological details are elusive. The above etymology was proposed by Michael Weiss in "Observations of the Prehistory of Latin augur," Alessandria 5 (2011), Atti del Convegno Internazionale … in memoriam Helmut Rix, pp. 365-79. As a morphological point of comparison for the derivation of augur, Weiss points to Latin vetus, veteris "old, veteran," which, if derived from an original u-stem adjective *u̯etu-, could be plausibly linked to Lithuanian vẽtušas and Old Church Slavic vetŭxŭ, both meaning "old.";

[Noun]  | "augurs" 

[Noun]  | "augur" 

[Verb]  | "augurs" 

[Verb]  | "augur"