augury

Etymology

augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.

noun

1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
2. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
   In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn. 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
   Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity. 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!