Where does “augur” come from?
augur (Romanian) comes from French augure, from Latin augurium, from Latin augur, from Latvian augos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂weg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ug-.
augur (Romanian): augur, auspex; augury, omen
Definitions
- augur, auspex; augury, omen
Ancestry of “augur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | augure | augury |
| 2 | Latin | augurium | augury; divination, prediction; omen, portent |
| 3 | Latin | augur | augur |
| 4 | Latvian | augos | locative plural form of augs; locative plural... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |