portentus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of portendō.

Participle

portentus (feminine portenta, neuter portentum); first/second-declension participle

1. indicated, pointed out
2. predicted, foretold

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	portentus	portenta	portentum		portentī	portentae	portenta
genitive	portentī	portentae	portentī		portentōrum	portentārum	portentōrum
dative	portentō	portentae	portentō		portentīs
accusative	portentum	portentam	portentum		portentōs	portentās	portenta
ablative	portentō	portentā	portentō		portentīs
vocative	portente	portenta	portentum		portentī	portentae	portenta

Derived terms

• portentōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: portent
• English: portent
• Italian: portento
• Portuguese: portento
• Spanish: portento

References

• “portentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “portentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• portentus 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