portenta

portenta is a Latin form of portendo, meaning “foretell, predict, portend; (portentum) portent, omen”.

It can also be a form of portentum, “omen, portent”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 63: … ret gloriam sempiternam, vobis haec fruenda relinqueret quae ipse servasset. multi etiam Catilinam atque illa portenta loquebantur: erumpet, occupabit aliquem locum, bellum patriae faciet. miseros interdum civis optime de re pub …

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.70: Quid Zeno? Portenta haec esse dicit, neque ea ratione ullo modo posse vivi; se dicere inter honestum et turpe nimium quantum, nescio quid inmensum, inter ceteras res nihil omnino interesse. idem adhuc;

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.