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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin haruspex.

Noun

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haruspex (plural haruspices)

  1. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes [], book II, London: [] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], →OCLC:
      If it be lawfull for Panæcius to maintaine his judgement about Aruspices, Dreames, Oracles and Prophecies []: Wherfore shall not a wise-man dare that in all things, which this man dareth in such as he hath learned of his Masters?
    • 2013, Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality:
      All of this is nonsense, but so are all attempts to look at a few successes and a few failures and make fatuous generalizations based on coincidence. Etruscan and Roman haruspices did the same thing with the entrails of chickens.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *haruspeks, equivalent to haru- (intestines) +‎ *spex.[1] The first component is related to hīra; the second is from the root of speciō (to observe, watch).[2] Compare Faliscan 𐌇𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌔𐌐(𐌄𐌗) (harisp(ex)). According to Nocentini[3] the first part stems from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (intestine) (thus *ǵʰr̥H-u- > *xaru-), whence also Latin hariolus, hernia (hernia).

Cognate to Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), Proto-Germanic *garnō (intestines) (whence German Garn) and to Lithuanian žarnà (intestine). The component -spex can also be found in the word auspex.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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haruspex m (genitive haruspicis); third declension

  1. diviner who reads from the intestines of sacrificial animals; one who practices haruspicy.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative haruspex haruspicēs
genitive haruspicis haruspicum
dative haruspicī haruspicibus
accusative haruspicem haruspicēs
ablative haruspice haruspicibus
vocative haruspex haruspicēs

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References

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  • haruspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • haruspex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • haruspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • haruspex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “haruspex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 280
  2. ^ “aruspice” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
  3. ^ “aruspice” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

Slovak

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Etymology

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Derived from Latin haruspex.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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haruspex m pers

  1. haruspex

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Further reading

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  • haruspex”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024