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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

auspicioso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ows-pee-syoh-soh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Auspicious/ɔːˈspɪʃəs/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Tuvimos un comienzo auspicioso en el torneo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Conducive to success; favorable or giving a sign of future success.

    "The company's first quarter sales were an auspicious start to the year."
  2. 2

    Characterized by success; prosperous.

    "They chose an auspicious date for their wedding ceremony."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'auspicium', meaning 'divination by looking at birds', composed from 'avis' (bird) and 'specere' (to look). Originally referring to Roman augury where the flight of birds foretold the future, the term evolved to denote any favorable sign or promising circumstance.

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