ăb-ōmĭnor

I. to deprecate any thing as an ill omen (not in Cic.).

I. Lit.: cum dixisset sepulcrum dirutum proram spectare, abominatus, etc., when he had spoken the words a ruined sepulchre, etc., wishing that this (the sepulchre, or the words spoken) might not be of evil omen, Liv. 30, 25 fin.; so also id. 6, 18, 9; Suet. Claud. 46.—Hence: quod abominor, Ov. M. 9, 677; id. P. 3, 1, 105; Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 7 al.—With inf.: haec universa habere abominabitur, Sen. Ben. 7, 8.—

II. In gen. (opp. to opto), to abominate, abhor, detest, Liv. 30, 30, 9; Col. 6, prooem. § 1; Quint. 4, 1, 33.—Hence derivv.,

1. ăbōmĭnan-ter, adv., abominably, detestably, Cod. Th. 3, 12, 13.—

2. ăbōmĭnandus, a, um, P. a., abominable, Liv. 9, 38 fin.; Sen. Ben. 1, 9; Quint. 8, 4, 22; 9, 2, 80.!*?

1. Collat. act. form ăbōmĭno, are: multam abomina, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 82.—

2. ăbōmĭnor in pass. signif.: saevitia eorum abominaretur ab omnibus, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.—So Part.: abominatus, abominated, accursed: Hannibal, Hor. Epod. 16, 8: semimares, Liv. 31, 12, 8: bubo funebris et maxime abominatus, Plin. 10, 12, 16.