The story
- Old Latin · derived fromosmen
- Latin · derived fromōminōsus“full of foreboding”
- English todayominous
From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed (see ōmen).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.