aucupium

== Latin == === Etymology === From auceps (“bird-catcher, fowler”) +‎ -ium. Compare aucupor (“to go bird-catching”). === Noun === aucupium n (genitive aucupiī or aucupī); second declension wildfowling place where wildfowling is practised ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== auceps === References === “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aucupium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. aucupium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.