augur

• n. 予言者; 神託者; 占い師
• vt.予言する；前兆である
• vi. 予言；占い
• n.（オーガー）人の名前；（英）オグル

au avと同じ語源で、鳥。-gur（ガー）garと同じ語源で、話す、擬音語。garrulous、饒舌なを参照。ローマ時代、鳥によって吉凶を占う習慣から。

augur

augur: [14] In Roman times, an augur was someone who foretold the future by observing the flight of birds (or by examining their entrails). His method of divination was reflected in his title, for the Latin word augur, earlier auger, seems to have meant literally ‘one who performs with birds’, from avis ‘bird’ (as in English aviary [16] and aviation [19]) and gerere ‘do, perform’ (as in English gestation, gesture, gerund, digest, and suggest). (A parallel formation is auspice [16], whose Latin antecedent auspex meant ‘one who observed the flight of birds’; it was compounded from avis and the verb specere ‘look’, which is related to English species and spy.) A Latin derivative was the verb inaugurāre ‘foretell the future from the flight of birds’, which was applied to the installation of someone of office after the appropriate omens had been determined; by the time it reached English as inaugurate [17], the association with divination had been left far behind.
=> aviary, aviation, inaugurate

augur (n.)

1540s, from Latin augur, a religious official in ancient Rome who foretold events by interpreting omens, perhaps originally meaning "an increase in crops enacted in ritual," in which case it probably is from Old Latin *augos (genitive *augeris) "increase," and is related to augere "increase" (see augment). The more popular theory is that it is from Latin avis "bird," because the flights, singing, and feeding of birds, along with entrails from bird sacrifices, were important objects of divination (compare auspicious). In that case, the second element would be from garrire "to talk."

augur (v.)

c. 1600, from augur (n.). Related: Augured; auguring.

1. Already there were problems.It didn 't augur well.

にはすでに問題があり、これは良い兆しではありません。

2.Conflicts among the various groups do not augur well for the future of the peace talks.

各派間の衝突は和平交渉にとって良い兆しではない。

3.Does this unfortunate news augur war in the near future？

この不幸なニュースは、近い将来戦争が起こることを予告しているのだろうか。

4.The signs augur well for tomorrow 's weather.

様々な兆候が明日の天気を良好にすることを示している。

5.I augur from all circumstances it is a prosperous voyage.

さまざまな状況から推測すると、航行は順調になると思います。