auspex
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]auspex (plural auspices)
- (historical) An officiating priest in Ancient Rome.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *avi-spex (“who examines (the flight of) the birds”), equivalent to avis, avi- (“bird”) + specere, speciō (“to watch, observe”) + -s,[1] with contraction of avi- to au- (compare auceps). See also haruspex.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈau̯s.peks/, [ˈäu̯s̠pɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯s.peks/, [ˈäu̯speks]
Noun
[edit]auspex m (genitive auspicis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | auspex | auspicēs |
genitive | auspicis | auspicum |
dative | auspicī | auspicibus |
accusative | auspicem | auspicēs |
ablative | auspice | auspicibus |
vocative | auspex | auspicēs |
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- haruspex, auspex
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “auspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “auspex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “auspex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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- Latin compound terms
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- Latin 2-syllable words
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