auspicium

== Latin == === Etymology === From auspex (“augur, priest”) +‎ -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯sˈpɪ.ki.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯sˈpiː.t͡ʃi.um] === Noun === auspicium n (genitive auspiciī or auspicī); second declension divination, augury (by watching birds) auspices (transferred) (plural) power, authority sign, indication ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “auspicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “auspicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “auspicium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “auspicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “auspicium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin