extispicium

== Latin == === Etymology === extispex (“diviner of entrails”) +‎ -ium (forming abstract nouns) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.stɪsˈpɪ.ki.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.stisˈpiː.t͡ʃi.um] === Noun === extispicium n (genitive extispiciī or extispicī); second declension extispicy; divination through the examination of entrails. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → English: extispicy → Italian: extispicio, estispicio === References === “extispicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “extispicium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.