auceps

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly from Proto-Italic *awikaps, itself possibly from *awis + *-kaps. Equivalent to avis (“bird”) +‎ -ceps (“catcher”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈau̯.kɛps] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaːu̯.t͡ʃeps] === Noun === auceps m (genitive aucupis); third declension a bird-catcher; fowler (figuratively) eavesdropper ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== auceps syllabārum aucupor ==== Related terms ==== === References === “auceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “auceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “auceps”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “auceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “auceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65