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portendi

portendi is a Latin form of portendo, meaning “foretell, predict, portend; (portentum) portent, omen”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.7: … ones vero et praesensiones rerum futurarum quid aliud declarant nisi hominibus ea quae sint ostendi monstrari portendi praedici, ex quo illa ostenta monstra portenta prodigia dicuntur. Quod si ea ficta credimus licentia fabularu …

All forms of portendo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.