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Latin
Noun
ostentum n (genitive ostentī); second declension
- portent
- prodigy, miracle
- Synonyms: mōnstrum, prōdigium, portentum, mīrāculum, mīrum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Participle
ostentum
- inflection of ostentus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- ostentum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “ostentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ostentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ostentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ostentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.