extispex

== English == === Etymology === From Latin extispex. === Noun === extispex (plural extispices) (historical) Somebody who predicts the future using entrails ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === exta (“entrails”) +‎ *spex, the same element as auspex and haruspex. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈstɪs.pɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈstis.peks] === Noun === extispex m (genitive extispicis); third declension a diviner who reads prophesies from the entrails of animals; a soothsayer Synonyms: hariolus, haruspex ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== extispicium === References === “extispex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “extispex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers