ominar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Latin osmender.

Latin ōmen

Latin ōminārībor.

Spanish ominar

Borrowed from Latin ōminārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /omiˈnaɾ/ [o.miˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: o‧mi‧nar

Verb

ominar (first-person singular present omino, first-person singular preterite ominé, past participle ominado)

1. (transitive) to omen, to be an omen of

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ominar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			ominar
gerund			ominando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		ominado		ominada
		plural		ominados		ominadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	omino	ominastú ominásvos	omina	ominamos	omináis	ominan
	imperfect	ominaba	ominabas	ominaba	ominábamos	ominabais	ominaban
	preterite	ominé	ominaste	ominó	ominamos	ominasteis	ominaron
	future	ominaré	ominarás	ominará	ominaremos	ominaréis	ominarán
	conditional	ominaría	ominarías	ominaría	ominaríamos	ominaríais	ominarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	omine	ominestú ominésvos2	omine	ominemos	ominéis	ominen
	imperfect (ra)	ominara	ominaras	ominara	omináramos	ominarais	ominaran
	imperfect (se)	ominase	ominases	ominase	ominásemos	ominaseis	ominasen
	future1	ominare	ominares	ominare	omináremos	ominareis	ominaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		ominatú ominávos	omine	ominemos	ominad	ominen
	negative		no omines	no omine	no ominemos	no ominéis	no ominen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “ominar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025