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Latin
Noun
portentum n (genitive portentī); second declension
- omen, presage
- portent, prodigy, wonder, miracle
- Synonyms: mīrāculum, mōnstrum, ostentum, prōdigium, mīrum
- monster, a monstrous creature
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Participle
portentum
- inflection of portentus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- portentum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “portentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “portentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- portentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
- (ambiguous) marvellous ideas; prodigies: monstra or portenta
- “portentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “portentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin