I.to announce or publish beforehand, to foretell, foreshow, predict; constr. with acc., de, or an object-clause (class.).
I. Lit.: “futura,” Cic. Div. 1, 6, 12. —Impers.: “de eorum adventu esse pronuntiatum,” Nep. Eum. 9, 4 (but in Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 12, the correct reading is abi prae: nuntia, etc., Fleck.).—
II. Transf., of things: “juglans, frangi se, praenuntiat strepitu,” Plin. 16, 42, 81, § 223: “vasa diras tempestates praenuntiant,” id. 18, 35, 90, § 365: “usus turris ad praenuntianda vada,” id. 36, 12, 18, § 83.